The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2004] 2 AC 182
House of Lords
Regina (Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner and another
[2004] UKHL 10
2004 Feb 2,
3,
4;
March 11
March 11
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Carswell
Coroner
— Inquest
— Verdict
— Prisoner having threatened suicide taking own life
— Coroner's direction to jury not to return verdict referring to neglect
— Coroner refusing to append jury's note to inquisition indicating Prison Service's failure in duty to prisoner
— Whether inquest meeting state's procedural duty to investigate deaths
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Coroners Act 1988 (c 13), s. 11
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 2
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Coroners Rules 1984 (SI 1984/552), rr 36, 42, 43