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Court of Appeal adjudicates high-profile custody battle
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- December 6 2010
On 15 November 2010, the Court of Appeal was asked to adjudicate a high-profile custody battle over two children conceived by artificial insemination to a lesbian couple using donated sperm
R (on the application of McLeish) v HM Coroner for the Northern District of Greater London 2010
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- United Kingdom
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- December 6 2010
In R (on the application of McLeish) v HM Coroner for the Northern District of Greater London 2010, the claimant applied for judicial review after a coroner delayed in providing information regarding her son's death
Recent developments in the law
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- United Kingdom
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- November 5 2010
The Chief Coroner's Officer has been abolished and the role of Chief Coroner, one of the more popular suggestions from the recent review of coronial law, has been abandoned as a result of the recent "bonfire of quangos"
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 equalises law on legal parenthood
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- May 14 2010
On 6 April 2010, the legal parenthood provisions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act came into force, extending the right, if certain conditions are met, to both partners in a same sex couple to be named on a child's birth certificate
High Court rules coroner should not preside over reinquest on grounds of bias
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- United Kingdom
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- April 14 2010
The recent case of R (on the application of Carol Pounder) v HM Coroner for North and South Districts of Durham & Darlington (2010) explored the circumstances when a Coroner would have to recuse himself from presiding over a fresh inquest
Changes to NHS Injury Cost Recovery Scheme
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- United Kingdom
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- April 14 2010
The Compensation Recovery Unit, on behalf of the Department of Health, currently administers the NHS Injury Cost Recovery (ICR) Scheme
Challenge to detention under Mental Capacity Act 2005 fails
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- United Kingdom
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- January 11 2010
The appellant, who suffered from vascular dementia and Korsakoff’s syndrome, argued that his detention by the Trust under a standard order of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 amounted to a deprivation of his liberty
Challenge to Coroner’s verdict fails
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- January 11 2010
This case involved a challenge to the verdict of HM Coroner for Portsmouth and South East Hampshire who, on 13 November 2008, held an inquest touching the death of Russell Anthony Neal Jenkins
Inquests and coronial news
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- December 3 2009
The recent case of Dowler v HM Coroner for North London 2009 provides an example of where the courts are prepared to quash a coronial decision and order a new inquest to be held before a different Coroner
Inquests and coronial news
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- November 30 2009
Recent helpful case law (R (Farah v HM Coroner for the Southampton and New Forest District of Hampshire) 2009 clarified that a coroner’s comments, made as part of a judgment and in addition to a verdict, can be unlawful in certain limited circumstances
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- Author - Cass Browning