The first of yesterday’s Lords judgments was in this human rights case, about the standard of investigation required by the article 2 Convention right to life, when a prisoner attempts suicide and fails, but injures himself seriously. In this […]

I can now link to Collins J’s judgment in the case that received lots of media coverage the other day, on the right to life and troops in Iraq – although it looks as though some further observations from […]

I completely agree with David Pannick’s view in the Times today: the Fayed farce shows us coroners need the discretion to decline to carry out an inquest in specific circumstances – where a death has already been […]

Apparently Fayed is not planning further legal action in his “quest for truth” about Diana. There’s a turn-up. I find it especially moving that he’s giving up for the sake of the princes.

I sincerely hope so. Of course he doesn’t accept the unlawful killing verdict. He’ll believe there was a Nazi establishment murder plot until he meets the all-knowing conspiracy theorist in the sky, and no kind of inquiry could ever […]

Following my last post about Mental Health Act, I remembered I’ve not blogged, since my semi-(cough-sniff!)-return to health, about the Diana inquest. I was amused today that Lord Foulkes and Denis MacShane have called the inquest a […]

Apparently, Mohammed Fayed is unhappy with the opening statement of the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, in the Diana and Dodi inquest, which he thinks could give “an appearance of bias”.

How astonishing!

Fayed has of course […]