We have noted expertise in:
- Practice and procedure of the Coroner’s Courts, including providing representation
- Taking witness statements – including some of a very technical nature
- Preparing witness reports
- Providing familiarisation training to witnesses giving evidence at inquests
- Pre-inquest hearings and reviews
- A variety of interview techniques to elicit sensitive and important information, often from traumatic memories
- UK Regulation 28 recommendations
- Jury inquests
- Article 2 inquests and other European Convention on Human Rights issues
- Limiting the costs of the inquest process, in financial terms as well as management time and resource, and claims that follow inquests
- Navigating the relationship between inquests and parallel criminal investigations, and helping clients to minimize adverse impact form one to another
- Dealing with media scrutiny
- Advising on learning lessons from deaths to help improve safety for the future.
