The Weekly Law Reports
[2020] 3 WLR 1268
Court of Appeal
Regina (Maguire) v Blackpool and Fylde Senior Coroner and others
[2020] EWCA Civ 738
2020 Feb 4, 5; June 10
Lord Burnett of Maldon CJ, Ryder, Nicola Davies LJJ
Coroner— Inquest— Verdict— Vulnerable incapacitous adult dying while resident in state-funded care home— Coroner finding state’s procedural duty to investigate deaths not applying and limiting jury’s consideration to “how” deceased came to die— Whether state’s operational duty to protect life owed to deceased— Whether state under procedural duty 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
—
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c 25), s 5