Coroner
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An Article 2 inquest will be held in cases where an individual has died whilst being in the custody of the state. Often this will be an inmate in a...
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Julie Crossley, an associate in the medical negligence team at Ashtons Legal, recently attended the inquest into the death of Mr F, a man who died from a pulmonary embolism...
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Sharon Allison, partner and head of medical negligence at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a five-figure settlement for the parents of a vulnerable man who drowned after suffering an epileptic seizure...
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An inquest has found that ‘shocking’ mistakes contributed to the death of a baby at the Queen’s Medical Centre in 2018. Kaylan Coates, son of Hayley Coates, suffered a fractured...
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Heather Planner, 87, of Buckinghamshire, died from a stroke after being accidentally given another patient’s medication. Mrs Planner had been prescribed apixaban, a blood-thinning medicine. However when she went to...
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An inquest into the death of a Great Yarmouth woman who died in a fire at her home has revealed that health and social workers involved in the case ‘didn’t...
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Sharon Allison, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, is to represent a family at an inquest that opens tomorrow (29 January). The inquest will be looking into the death...
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Nigel Parsley, a Suffolk coroner, has expressed the need for action to be taken against online health providers that dispense medication in order to prevent further deaths from occurring. Debbie...
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Hospitals and mental health trusts spend millions of pounds employing lawyers to represent them at inquests. In contrast, the relatives of those who have died often get no legal aid...
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Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week, a week created to raise awareness of the key issues that affect those who have suffered the loss of a baby....
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