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The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Coronial Aspects
The Report
of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry was published on the Internet on
24 February 1999. In the Report, the inquest is described and discussed
in Chapter
42. A large number of Recommendations are made in Chapter
47. These include two of relevance to coroners’ inquests, which
are set out below:
"42 That there should be advance disclosure of evidence and documents
as of right to parties who have leave from a Coroner to appear at an Inquest.
43 That consideration be given to the provision of Legal Aid to victims
or the families of victims to cover representation at an Inquest in appropriate
cases."
These recommendations were the subject of an article
in the New Law Journal
(Matthews, (1999) 149 NLJ 418). They have since been accepted in part
by the Home Secretary in his formal
response, ie for No. 42 "in relation to deaths in custody", and for No.
43 "in relation to exceptional cases". But the Home Secretary does not intend
legislation to deal with No. 42: instead it will be dealt with only by non-statutory
schemes: see Deaths in Custody.
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