tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post3450836463966737583..comments2024-03-28T09:08:50.733+00:00Comments on Law and Lawyers: Coroners - Chief Coroner and updating the systemObiterJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544226917595022902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-11284447425048305732013-05-18T10:50:04.489+01:002013-05-18T10:50:04.489+01:00Was initially searching for information for medica...Was initially searching for information for <a title="medical law solicitors" href="http://www.medicalnegligenceclaim.com.au/research-statistics/medical-law-solicitors/" rel="nofollow">medical law solicitors</a>, but have found this blog really interesting. Would be good to see you write about medical negligence. Medical Negligence Claim (Australia)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06405125906185251168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-35932343236893068052012-10-13T22:56:57.141+01:002012-10-13T22:56:57.141+01:00Assistant Deputy Coroner North East Lincs presidin...Assistant Deputy Coroner North East Lincs presiding in Scunthorpe on 5th October 2005, would not allow the daughters of the deceased who were present for the last 6 days and nights of their father's life give evidence. <br /><br />This Coroner never gave the blood family any information whatsoever and refused to speak to them.<br /><br />This Coroner and the Doncaster Coroner who "recused" himself a year after the death, never contacted either of the two Consultants for information which would have proved my father was not dying when terminal drugs were prescribed by an on call doctor without seeing the patient. for a health condition the Pathology Report proves my father did not have.<br /><br />This Coroner was obviously covering up what happened since the NHS had been used or he was totally ignorant of what his job was.<br /><br />We need a new inquest into Ralph Winstanley's death now please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-38683797059480998432012-09-23T23:49:56.454+01:002012-09-23T23:49:56.454+01:00I also agree - I have a letter in my posession, fr...I also agree - I have a letter in my posession, from 2008, in which the Coroner for Bournemouth misquoted S.19 of Coroner's Rules - omitting the two sentences that were added post-Shipman, which gave me the right to see the evidence on which he had based his decision NOT to hold an inquest into my late father's 'involuntary euthenasia' in an NHS hospital. It is signed by him, and written in the first person. <br />In addition to failing to answer my telephone call for 5 days, I was told: <br />If I did not apply for a S.19 (post mortem without Inquest), I wouldn't get one, as the Coroner was short of money, and that my father was 'old anyway';<br />I counted some 18 breaches of NICE and NPSA guidance in the 'care' he received - the Coroner's chosen 'expert' was a GP who was in the employment of the same PHCT, had no relevant training in Pathology, did not hold a valid HTA licence, who conducted the post mortem 10 days later in a Home Office Lab serving 3 Police Forces, despite holding an invalid CPA licence, and who lost a vitreous humor sample relevant to the Toxicology report.<br />I was unable to find a solicitor or independent pathologist, whereupon the coroner threatened to charge me for storing his corpse, despite the Council telling me there was no shortage of space in their mortuary, and that no additional costs were incurred if the units were full or empty. <br />I attempted a JRA application after being telephoned and told he had deep frozen my father, tried, to acquaint myself with Public Law on the internet, was not supplied with any medical records by the hospital, and I'm afraid had to withdraw in a state of exhaustion after blacking out, 'disappearing ' for 3 days and coming to in a completely strange town with no idea how I got there. The Coroner (despite being a legal appointee) was represented by two QCs from Temple and indemnified from local Council Taxes - in effect, I was paying CT to shaft myself.<br /><br />I am staggered that the evidence was never secured - when I finally received the medical records, they were all written on 'continuation sheets' - when I asked the Coroner for the copies he'd kept so I could compare and look for evidence of alterations, he wrote his 'misrepresentation letter' , and when I queried this using statutes database, he was forced to admit he'd never asked for the medical records in the first place.<br /><br />I would like to think there was SOMETHING that could be done about a Judge who deliberately cuts two sentences out of a UK Statute to obscure his own shortcomings in investigation....but hey, I've met Anne Reeves - her mother was one of the 200+ murder victims of Jane Barton in the Gosport War Memorial Hospital - 10 years on, she's still fighting for inquests on behalf of 90 other familes, and Jane Barton was permitted to carry on practicing! A woman died under the care of the same surgeons, operating outside their area of specialty within a year of his death - I think that was avoidable too.<br /><br />Lots of 'Cowboy Coroners' out there - they make every other serving Judge look like complete tossers - and if they're happy with that, so be it.....<br /><br /><br /> Lofthousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110794854146484721.post-46494155367528775022012-09-19T08:38:13.005+01:002012-09-19T08:38:13.005+01:00I entirely agree. The local variation which one f...I entirely agree. The local variation which one finds with Coroners must be brought to an end. They must be trained, inspected and appealed where necessary. I recently appeared before an Assistant Deputy Coroner who did not have a clue about how to conduct an inquest, confessed as much and asked the Bar for help - the ADC had never had any proper training. One chink of good news is that the LCJ has allocated all Coronial JRs and fiats to the Chief Coroner - a route of appeal by the back door?A Barrister in Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com