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Specialisation: Human rights, public law, inquests, prison, police, mental health, mental capacity, community care, discrimination. Significant recent cases include R (Lewis & ors) v HM Coroner for Shropshire [2009] EWHC 661 (Admin) (a coroner's direction on narrative verdicts); R (on the application of D) v Inner South London Assistant Deputy Coroner [2008] EWHC 3356 (Admin) (acting for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes); and R V Williams [2009] EWCA Crim 355 (a successful challenge to an IPP sentence).
Publications: Inquests – a Practitioner’s Guide, LAG; Recent Developments in Inquest Law, an ongoing series in Legal Action.