The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 3 WLR 103
Supreme Court
Rex (Maguire) v Blackpool and Fylde Senior Coroner and others
[2023] UKSC 20
2022 Nov 22, 23; 2023 June 21
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose JJSC
Coroner— Inquest— Verdict— Vulnerable incapacitous adult dying in hospital while resident at state-funded care home— Coroner finding state’s enhanced procedural obligation to investigate deaths not applying and limiting jury’s consideration to how deceased came to die— Whether state’s substantive obligation to protect life owed to deceased— Whether state under enhanced procedural obligation to investigate circumstances of death— Whether jury to be permitted to deliver expanded conclusion—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 2, Sch 1, Pt I, art 2
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Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c 25), s 5