It’s time to replace the locally-funded coronial system in England and Wales with a taxpayer-funded national service, lawyer Veronica Cowan writes in this week’s NLJ. The investigation into deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital ‘has shone a troubling light’ on the system, she writes. There, the senior coroner for Portsmouth East had planned to conduct inquests in only ten out of 92 cases amid costs concerns and had warned the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health that the inquests would be a ‘crushing expense for the council’.
28 June 2018
Coroners’ issues under scrutiny
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly
Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team
Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees
Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees
Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron
Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes
NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
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