INQUEST Training Event

Speakers: Deborah Coles (Co-director, INQUEST); Sian Griffiths (Casework Service Manager, INQUEST); Nigel Meadows (HM Coroner, Greater Manchester City District); Jo Kearsley (solicitor, Farleys, Lancashire); Fiona Borrill (solicitor, Lester Morrill, Leeds); Nick Stanage , Erimnaz Mushtaq , Farrhat Arshad , John Hobson .

Overview

• First steps - contacting the coroner, funding, evidence and disclosure
• The scope of the inquest (including article 2 ECHR)
• Pre-inquest hearing and witnesses
• Expert evidence, juries and conducting the full hearing and verdicts
• A Coroner's point of view
• Post-inquest remedies – damages, civil claims, CFA funding
• How INQUEST's casework impacts on policy and practice
• The Coroners & Justice Bill and other developments including Matthews and Roach v Home Office [2009] EWHC 312 (QB) (25.02.09) on recoverability of inquest costs.

Booking information

Booking form available to download below or call INQUEST on 020 7263 1111 to request a copy. Payment can be made either online at www.inquest.org.uk/inquest_training.html or by cheque by following instructions on the booking form.

PLEASE NOTE: payment should be made to INQUEST for this event.