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Length:
30 minutes of audio
(+ optional 5 minute online quiz)
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Course Aims:

This podcast aims to discuss the key caselaw pertaining to inquests and also the impoact of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 on healthcare inquests

Outcomes:
After completing the course you will:
  • Understand the key recent cases that have involved the application of Article 2 ECHR in the healthcare setting;
  • Appreciate the cases that have affected inquest law in a more general way;
  • Know the key changes that the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 has introduced;
  • Understand what the impact of the act on healthcare inquests is;
  • Understand what Secondary Certification of Deaths entail;
  • Know how funding has changed;
  • Appreciate how the duty to investigate has been affected;
  • Know what the new Charter for the Bereaved is.
Level:
Intermediate Difficulty: 3 of 5
Classification:
Case Update
Legislative Updates
Sources and References:
  • Powell v UK (2000) 30 EHRR CD 362;
  • R(Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner [2004] UKHL 10;
  • R (on the application of Goodson) v Bedfordshire & Luton Coroner [2005] 2 All ER 791;
  • R (on the application of Takoushis) v HM Coroner for Inner North London [2005] EWC Civ 1440;
  • Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2008] UKHL 74;
  • Moss v HM Coroner for North and South Districts of Durham and Darlington EWHC 2940;
  • R (on the application of Allen) v HM Coroner for Inner North London [2009] EWCA Civ 623;
  • Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2009] EWHC 1827;
  • Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2010) EWHC 865 (QB);
  • Lewis, Calvert and Woods [2009] EWHC 661 (Admin) and CoA;
  • R(Farah) v HM Coroner for Southampton & New Forest District of Hampshire [2009] EWHC;
  • R (on app of Butler & Anor) v HM Coroner for the Black Country District (2010);
  • R (on app of P) v HM Coroner for the District of Avon;
  • The Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
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In this CPDcast, Nadia Persaud, a Partner in Bevan Brittan's Medical Law, discusses recent changes to Inquest Law. She looks at the application of Article 2 ECHR in the healthcare setting, gives a general case update in relation to inquest law and concludes the podcast by looking at the impact of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 on healthcare inquests

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