FULLY BOOKED Inquests and Inquiries: Advanced (afternoon session)

FormatDoughty Street Chambers
Type:LAG Seminar
Last updated:2019-01-17
2019-02-01T13:15Z
Description: FULLY BOOKED Inquests and Inquiries: Advanced (afternoon session)
This advanced course will provide a comprehensive update of all significant legal and practical developments about inquests, investigations, inquiries and related civil claims over the last 12 months. It will help practitioners to get involved with important future legal developments, and give guidance on the issues that may be confronted in more complex cases.
Course date: 1st February 2019
Venue: Doughty Street Chambers
Course Time: 1.15pm - 5.15pm
Accreditation: 3 hours CPD
Lecturers’ Names: Fiona Murphy and Jesse Nicholls
Description and brief synopsis
This half-day course is catered for delegates at an advanced level
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Afternoon session
Inquests and Inquiries: Advanced
Trainers: Fiona Murphy and Jesse Nicholls
This advanced course will provide a comprehensive update of all significant legal and practical developments about inquests, investigations, inquiries and related civil claims over the last 12 months. It will help practitioners to get involved with important future legal developments, and give guidance on the issues that may be confronted in more complex cases.
Topics include:
1. A review of all important recent domestic and ECtHR cases and other legal developments, and an analysis of their implications for investigations, inquests, inquiries and civil claims.
2. Hot topics over the next 12 months.
3. Tips and tactical issues in public inquiries and other forms of inquiry, such as permission to question witnesses.
4. Complex cases, such as those involving large disasters, terrorism, sensitive material, historical deaths or abuse, and deaths abroad or caused by those abroad.
5. Public law challenges, including to coronial, CPS or IPCC decisions, failure to investigate, and failure to ensure disciplinary or criminal proceedings take place.
Course materials
Lecture format. Case studies and question and answer sessions enable delegates to explore this area of law. Comprehensive course handouts will be distributed to all delegates.
Details of speakers
Fiona Murphy is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specialising in claims against the police and other detaining authorities, inquests and inquiries, and related public law work.
Her current inquest and inquiry work includes the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the Anthony Grainger Inquiry, the Undercover Policy Inquiry and instruction in relation to the restraint related deaths of Dalian Atkinson and Shane Bryant. She is also currently instructed in the Hillsborough Victims Misfeasance Group Litigation having been instructed in the 77 families’ team at the new Inquests. Other notable inquest and related litigation work the restraint related deaths of Jimmy Mubenga and Richard O’Brien who were found to be unlawfully killed and R (Lewis) v Shropshire Coroner. Fiona represents victims of human rights infringements.
Jesse Nicholls is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specialising in claims against the police and other detaining authorities, inquests and inquiries, and related public law work.
Jesse has acted in many of the most high-profile inquests and inquires in recent years, including the Hillsborough inquests, the Undercover Policing Inquiry, and the inquest into the death of Sean Benton, one of four soldiers who died at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002. He currently acts for numerous victims and bereaved families at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, he is instructed as Counsel to the Inquests in the Manchester Arena Bombing inquests, and he represents the family of James Collinson, who died at Deepcut Barracks in 2002. He is co-editor of INQUEST’s quarterly publication and has written on inquest law and Article 2 issues for Legal Action. He has also authored chapters for Inquests: A Practitioner’s Guide (3rd edn, LAG) and Halsbury’s Laws of England: Rights and Freedoms (5th edn), he is a contributor to Judicial Review: Law and Practice (Jordans).
Booking rates
Commercial rate: £115 + VAT - commercial organisations including barristers and solicitors in private practice.
Standard rate: £105 + VAT - statutory and not for profit organisations.
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