An Introduction to Inquests - 6 Essential Modules - Webinar Boxset

Introduction

This course is a comprehensive but digestible boxset of six, thirty-minute modules covering the basics of what you need to know about inquests.

Module 1 - What Is An Inquest?

• What is an inquest? What is its purpose and what are the sources of law?
• Who are the key people in an inquest?
• What does an inquest process look like?
• Overlap between inquests and other proceedings (stopping, starting, and resuming an inquest)

Module 2 - Opening An Inquest & Pre-Inquest Reviews

• Formally opening an inquest and setting the inquest hearing date
• Pre-inquest reviews in detail, including what they are, when they are held and topics which will be discussed

Module 3 - Scope & Juries

• The scope of an inquest: Article 2 inquest or Jamieson inquest?
• When will or can an inquest be held with a jury?

Module 4 - The Inquest Hearing - Procedure & Evidence

• The inquest hearing itself: procedure and process
• Forms of evidence at an inquest hearing
• Live witnesses at an inquest hearing

Module 5 - Concluding An Inquest Hearing

• Conclusions at an inquest hearing
• Prevention of Future Deaths Reports

Module 6 - Challenging Coronial Decisions

• Forms of challenge
• Judicial review of inquest proceedings
• Applications for a fresh inquest