In this webinar, Senior Associate Solicitor, Nicola Handley, will be joined by Derek Winter, Deputy Chief Coroner, and Mike Rawlinson, K.C Barrister, for an interesting session about Evidence and Conclusions and the different ways they can be relied upon in the Civil and Coronial process.
We will also be joined by our clients Lesley and Neal Davison, who have personally experienced the inquest process twice, to share their story about the gathering of evidence and how the Coroner’s conclusion made a difference to their family following the death of their daughter, Megan, who took her own life in August 2017. Megan had been suffering from Type 1 Diabetes with Disordered Eating (T1DE) and had received care as an inpatient and from a community eating disorder team.
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A short inquest was held into Megan’s death in March 2018, but Lesley and Neal later successfully applied to the High Court for a new inquest to be held, as the first inquest had not properly investigated the treatment she received for T1DE. The second inquest into Megan’s death was heard in June and July 2024, and resulted in the Coroner sending a Report to Prevent Future Deaths to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in relation to treatment for T1DE at a national level.
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You’ll hear about:
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· The rules relating to Evidence and Conclusions during the Coronial process and when a Post Mortem examination may be required
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· The admissibility of evidence and conclusions in a civil claim following an Inquest and how we can work together for the benefit of bereaved families?
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· The importance of obtaining evidence and the Coroner’s conclusion from a bereaved families perspective.
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For those who have experienced grief or anyone who wants to understand how to support someone who is grieving, we are hosting a free bereavement conference on the 5th December at The Studio in Manchester. For more information, please contact sophie.shanu@irwinmitchell.com.
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His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for the City of Sunderland – 2003 to Date
Deputy Chief Coroner of England and Wales – January 2019 to Date
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He is the Assistant Secretary of The Coroners’ Society of England & Wales, responsible for the Membership, Website and Annual Report.
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He is a Home Office Accredited UK Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Coroner and is part of the Chief Coroner’s Cadre of DVI Coroners.
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In October 2014 the Coroners’ Officers and Staff Association conferred honorary membership to Mr Winter.
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He was a Course Director for the Judicial College Training for Coroners and Coroners’ Officers from 2015 to 2019.
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In June 2015 he became a Deputy Lieutenant for County Durham.
Michael Rawlinson KC has a broad civil practice centred around:
- Individual claims for catastrophic/fatal personal injury arising either from the infliction of bodily trauma or exposure to historically ingested toxins; and
- Group actions (both arising from and wholly unrelated to personal injury); and
- The national and international regulatory regimes standing behind carbon reporting for financial institutions; the proper creation of, accounting for, registration and trading of carbon credits.
Michael is a general editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Asbestos: Law and Litigation. In addition, he regularly writes and provides seminars on the theoretical and practical basis of the law relating to causation.
Areas of Expertise:
Traumatic Infliction of Loss;
Disease arising from toxic or noxious exposure;
Group Litigation;
Inquests;
Military Claims for Personal Injury;
Aviation and
Climate and Carbon Regulatory Issues.
Leila Ennis Smith is the mother of Darnell who was only 22 years of age when he passed away. Darnell was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and sickle cell disease and lived a very happy life with his family in Sheffield. He sadly passed away due to complications of treatment for sickle cell disease and an inquest into his death found there were gross failings of care in that respect.
Darnell’s parents have always been strong advocates for those with sickle cell disease but since the inquest into Darnell’s death, Leila is now working with her local NHS Trust and the Sickle Cell Society to improve care and treatment for those living with the disease. Darnell’s family have arranged a fundraiser event in his memory, where all funds raised will go to the Sickle Cell Society.
Our eldest daughter, Megan, was diagnosed with Type 1 in 2006 at the age of 16. For the next ten years we were completely unaware that she was in the grip of T1DE (formerly Diabulimia), something we had never even heard of. We learned of the condition in 2016 following Megan’s first suicide attempt, and spent a year witnessing the inadequacies of the system that was supposed to help her until she took her own life in 2017.
Since then we have tried to raise awareness of T1DE (formerly Diabulimia) as a specific and unique condition that requires official recognition, and a structured treatment pathway. We have no medical training but have asked a lot of questions and done as much research as we can.
As we are now both retired we do have a certain amount of independence and plenty of time and determination.
Our eldest daughter, Megan, was diagnosed with Type 1 in 2006 at the age of 16. For the next ten years we were completely unaware that she was in the grip of T1DE (formerly Diabulimia), something we had never even heard of. We learned of the condition in 2016 following Megan’s first suicide attempt, and spent a year witnessing the inadequacies of the system that was supposed to help her until she took her own life in 2017.
Since then we have tried to raise awareness of T1DE (formerly Diabulimia) as a specific and unique condition that requires official recognition, and a structured treatment pathway. We have no medical training but have asked a lot of questions and done as much research as we can.
As we are now both retired we do have a certain amount of independence and plenty of time and determination.