Medical Inquests
Authors: Roger Murray, Doireann O’Mahony, David O’Malley
ISBN: 9781911611653
Format: Paperback
Published: 19 May 2022
Medical Inquests is the first book in the area of inquests for over two decades to be published in Ireland. This book comprehensively examines the law around inquests concerning deaths in a medical setting. Areas addressed include: maternal deaths, deaths in psychiatric care, human rights and causation issues. Other topics covered are: practice and procedure in medical inquests, evidence, documentation and pandemics/Covid-19.
Medical Inquests critically assesses the pace of change of the law on coroner’s inquests and examines the case for change. The work is eagerly awaited in an area of law which is topical and specialised, yet of great public interest.
This book will appeal to all sitting coroners, as well as barristers, solicitors, law students, bereaved families and all those who must interact with the coroner’s service, following a patient’s death, including doctors, nurses and hospital managers.
Content Includes
The Coroner’s Court: History and Function
The Changing Landscape: The 2019 Coroners Act
Causation and The Coroner’s Court
Practice and Procedure At Inquest Part I
Practice and Procedure At Inquest Part II
Documents At Inquest
Verdicts and Recommendations
Human Rights
Maternal Deaths
Judicial Review
Covid-19 and Major Disasters
Authors: Roger Murray, Doireann O’Mahony, David O’Malley
ISBN: 9781911611653
Format: Paperback
Published: 19 May 2022
Medical Inquests is the first book in the area of inquests for over two decades to be published in Ireland. This book comprehensively examines the law around inquests concerning deaths in a medical setting. Areas addressed include: maternal deaths, deaths in psychiatric care, human rights and causation issues. Other topics covered are: practice and procedure in medical inquests, evidence, documentation and pandemics/Covid-19.
Medical Inquests critically assesses the pace of change of the law on coroner’s inquests and examines the case for change. The work is eagerly awaited in an area of law which is topical and specialised, yet of great public interest.
This book will appeal to all sitting coroners, as well as barristers, solicitors, law students, bereaved families and all those who must interact with the coroner’s service, following a patient’s death, including doctors, nurses and hospital managers.
Content Includes
The Coroner’s Court: History and Function
The Changing Landscape: The 2019 Coroners Act
Causation and The Coroner’s Court
Practice and Procedure At Inquest Part I
Practice and Procedure At Inquest Part II
Documents At Inquest
Verdicts and Recommendations
Human Rights
Maternal Deaths
Judicial Review
Covid-19 and Major Disasters
Authors: Roger Murray, Doireann O’Mahony, David O’Malley
ISBN: 9781911611653
Format: Paperback
Published: 19 May 2022
Medical Inquests is the first book in the area of inquests for over two decades to be published in Ireland. This book comprehensively examines the law around inquests concerning deaths in a medical setting. Areas addressed include: maternal deaths, deaths in psychiatric care, human rights and causation issues. Other topics covered are: practice and procedure in medical inquests, evidence, documentation and pandemics/Covid-19.
Medical Inquests critically assesses the pace of change of the law on coroner’s inquests and examines the case for change. The work is eagerly awaited in an area of law which is topical and specialised, yet of great public interest.
This book will appeal to all sitting coroners, as well as barristers, solicitors, law students, bereaved families and all those who must interact with the coroner’s service, following a patient’s death, including doctors, nurses and hospital managers.
Content Includes
The Coroner’s Court: History and Function
The Changing Landscape: The 2019 Coroners Act
Causation and The Coroner’s Court
Practice and Procedure At Inquest Part I
Practice and Procedure At Inquest Part II
Documents At Inquest
Verdicts and Recommendations
Human Rights
Maternal Deaths
Judicial Review
Covid-19 and Major Disasters