The court has power to amend an inquisition by the substitution of words in an appropriate case. The power was only to be exercised with extreme caution: ‘The bottom line, so it seems to me, is that words can be thus substituted if they are words to which the decision-maker could not object as unreflective of his reasonable determination.’
Judges:
Wilson J
Citations:
[2005] EWHC 1359 (Admin)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Ministry of Defence v Her Majesty’s Coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon and others Admn 13-Feb-2006
The ministry appealed against the verdict that the deceased had been unlawfully killed. He had ingested sarin during an experiment on him at Porton Down in 1953. The court was asked itself to amend the verdict.
Held: There had been a full . .
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Coroners
Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.228217