Inquests

Coroners hold inquests into the causes and circumstances of death where the death was violent or unnatural or took place in prison or police custody or when the cause of death is still uncertain after a post-mortem.

See also

• Reports to Prevent Future Deaths

Case law

• Inquest cases
• PFD reports

External links

Need to check these:

• Ministry of Justice: Coroners
• HundredFamilies.org: Practical information for families affected by mental health homicides in Britain - website linked to the "Why did you kill my dad?" BBC television documentary
• The Coroners' Society of England and Wales
• Direct.gov.uk: Coroners, post-mortems and inquests
• Ministry of Justice, 'Summary of Reports and Responses under Rule 43 of the Coroners Rules March 2011' (March 2011)
• Guardian: Intervening behind closed doors - 31/3/10 - Mayan Coomeraswamy

INFORMATION

• Aftercare
  • Charging for aftercare services
  • Ordinary residence
  • Patients who are eligible for aftercare
  • The aftercare duty and its duration
  • The definition of aftercare
  • Which authority pays for aftercare
• Changes made by MHA 2007
  • New procedure for renewal of detention
  • Responsible Clinician/Approved Clinician replaces Responsible Medical Officer
  • Approved Mental Health Professional replaces Approved Social Worker
  • Supervised Community Treatment replaces Supervised Discharge
  • Mental disorder no longer split into separate classifications
  • Some exclusions to definition of mental disorder have been removed
  • Hospital directions under s45A apply to any mental disorder
  • New definition of medical treatment
  • Civil partners are treated as if married when determining nearest relative
  • Additional safeguards for ECT introduced in new s58A
  • Treatment while under SCT is covered by new Part 4A
  • NHS Foundation Trusts discharge power problem remedied
  • Patients can be transferred between places of safety under s135 and s136
  • 16- or 17-year-old with capacity cannot be detained on basis of parental consent
  • Restriction orders can no longer be time-limited
  • Legal status of Code of Practice set out in Act
  • New Independent Mental Health Advocate scheme
  • New requirements for age-appropriate accommodation for children
  • Fundamental principles set out in Act and included in Code of Practice
  • Automatic reference scheme under s68 changed
  • Minor drafting error in MCA 2005 corrected
  • Bournewood gap bridged by Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards inserted into MCA 2005
  • Limitation to the exceptions to the duty to instruct IMCA
  • Reference to Local Health Boards inserted into Act
  • Procedure for making of instruments by Welsh Ministers set out
  • Organisation of Mental Health Review Tribunal changed
  • Transitional provisions until full implementation of MHA 2007
  • New cross-border arrangements for leave and transfer
  • New regulations on conflicts of interest
  • SOAD certificate becomes invalid when patient loses or gains capacity
  • Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 applies to unrestricted criminal patients
  • Higher penalties for offences under Act
  • Hospital direction patients can no longer apply to Tribunal during first six months
  • Abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct is only a consideration for learning disability (not personality disorder)
  • Conditionally-discharged hospital direction patients can be absolutely discharged by MHRT
  • Patient can apply to displace nearest relative, who can now be displaced on grounds of unsuitability
  • Appropriate treatment test replaces treatability test and applies to all patients under long-term detention
• Civil sections and CTOs
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• International law
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• Legal Aid
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• Other jurisdictions
  • Northern Ireland
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• Psychiatry
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• Statistics
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• The Law Society
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What links here:

• R (LF) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner South London [2015] EWHC 2990 (Admin)
• R (Speck) v HM Coroner for District of York [2016] EWHC 6 (Admin), [2016] MHLO 1
• R (Ferreira) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner South London [2017] EWCA Civ 31
• R (Silvera) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2017] EWHC 2499 (Admin)
• R (Maughan) v Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2019] EWCA Civ 809
• R (Maguire) v HM's Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde [2019] EWHC 1232 (Admin)
• R (Maguire) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde [2020] EWCA Civ 738
• Rushbrooke v HM Coroner for West London [2020] EWHC 1612 (Admin)
• R (Lee) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sunderland [2019] EWHC 3227 (Admin)
• Re Lee [2019] MHLO 73 (Coroner)
• R (Morahan) v HM Assistant Coroner for West London [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin)
• R (Boyce) v HM Senior Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2022] EWHC 107 (Admin)
• R (Morahan) v HM Assistant Coroner for West London [2022] EWCA Civ 1410
• R (Patton) v HM Assistant Coroner for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire [2022] EWHC 1377 (Admin)
• R (Maguire) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde [2023] UKSC 20
• Briley v Leicester Partnership NHS Trust [2023] EWHC 1470 (SCCO)