R (GS) v Wiltshire and Swindon Senior Coroner

Subject Matter

CORONER — Inquest — Coroner’s duties — Death from poisoning by nerve agent — Alleged perpetrators thought to be Russian agents — Coroner deciding not to investigate responsibility of other Russian nationals or source of nerve agent — Whether ruling unlawful — Whether state’s procedural duty to investigate death requiring investigation into foreign state responsibility — Whether such investigation contravening prohibition on determination of criminal or civil liability — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 2 — Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c 25), ss 5, 10(2)

[2020] EWHC 2007 (Admin); [2020] 1 WLR 4889; [2020] WLR(D) 441, DC

Commentary

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