R (on the application of the Secretary of State for the Home Department) v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner West London [2010] EWHC 3098 (Admin), [2010] All ER (D) 303 (Nov)
Coroner—Inquest—Evidence
R (on the application of the Secretary of State for the Home Department) v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner West London [2010] EWHC 3098 (Admin), [2010] All ER (D) 303 (Nov)
Queen’s Bench Division, Administrative Court (London), Maurice Kay and Stanley Burnton LJJ, 30 Nov 2010
The word “public” in r 17 of the Coroners Rules 1984 (SI 1984/552) (the Rules) does not include properly interested persons and their legal representatives who are participating in inquests, and there is no scope for an implied power in the inquisitorial context to receive closed material in a closed hearing.
James Eadie QC and Jonathan Hall (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Secretary of State. Hugo Keith QC, Andrew O’Connor and Benjamin Hay (counsel to Inquests) for the coroner. Patrick O’Connor QC and Caoilfhionn Gallagher, and Christopher Coltart (instructed by Anthony Gold, Kingsley Napley, Sonn Macmillan Walker, Hogan Lovells, and Russell Jones & Walker) for some of the bereaved families. John
