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Coroners - From: 1993 To: 1993
This page lists 9 cases, and was prepared on 20 May 2019.
Regina v Southwark Coroner's Court ex parte Epsom Health Care NHS Trust [1993] 158 JP 973
1993
Steyn LJ
Coroners
Steyn LJ said that an inquest should not be used as a stepping stone to civil litigation.
An inquest verdict may be set aside in part as well as as a whole. A lack of care finding was deleted but the remainder of the verdict remained.
Anderson v Blashki; 1993 - [1993] 2 VR 89
Lothian Regional Council v Lord Advocate 1993 SLT 1133
1993
Coroners
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Regina v Merseyside Coroner, ex parte Carr Times, 04 June 1993
4 Jun 1993
QBD
Judicial Review, Coroners
The Coroner's procedure to summon suitably qualified jurors is mandatory.
Coroners Act 1988
Regina v North Humberside and Scunthorpe Coroner ex parte Jamieson; QBD 12-Jul-1993 - Times, 23 July 1993; Ind Summary, 18 October 1993; Ind Summary, 06 September 1993; Guardian, 12 July 1993
Regina v Hm Coroner for Inner West London Ex Parte Perks and Others Independent, 13 July 1993
13 Jul 1993
QBD
Coroners
No bias was shown by a delay in reopening an inquest and reference to the family.
Regina v HM Coroner for West Yorkshire (Eastern District) Ex Parte Clements Independent, 20 August 1993
20 Aug 1993
QBD
Coroners
A coroner was free to exclude evidence which he thought to be irrelevant or even if relevant where for expediency, exclusion would avoid increasing the length of the inquest and only add to the jury's task.
Coroners Act 1988 11(2)
Regina v Greater London Coroner Ex Parte Diea Koto Independent, 21 September 1993
21 Sep 1993
QBD
Coroners
An unlawful killing verdict to be left to jury if the evidence which might support that verdict was not incredible.
Regina v Coroner for Southern District of Greater London, ex Parte Driscoll [1994] 159 JPR 45; Ind Summ, 22 November 1993; Independent, 11 October 1993; [1994] COD 91
22 Oct 1993
Admn
Kennedy LJ and Pill J
Coroners, Costs
The applicant, a sister of the deceased, requested a judicial review of the decision of the coroner not to allow her to be represented and to cross examine witnesses. Held: One of the coroner's letters had been offensive and misleading. A close blood relative should normally be allowed to be represented. The coroner had erred in taking account of the bad relations between the applicant and the deceased's widow. The route by which the coroner had arrived at his decision was so seriously flawed that the inquest verdict itself ought not to be allowed to stand. The test was whether an applicant's desire to participate went beyond the wish to give relevant evidence and extended to a genuine concern regarding the scope of the inquest with an associated need to put views to witnesses.
As to the costs of the appeal, although one of the two sisters had received emergency legal aid, the other was unlikely to qualify for legal aid. The court identified why it should make a costs order against the coroner: (1) There was some evidence that the coroner had behaved "improperly"; (2) He had defended his decision in court and had therefore entered into the "lis"; and (3) The applicants would have to pay a significant amount of costs themselves if the costs order was not made against the coroner.
Coroners' Rules 1984 20(2)(h)
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