Coronial Law

Solicitor Aisling Quilter has been appointed as coroner for Kerry. Ms Quilter's appointment completes the amalgamation of the Kerry North and West coronial districts with the Kerry ...

Planned coronial reforms should include the provision of legal aid for families and reform of the jury system at inquests, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) ...

New legislation is to be introduced to allow for the appointment of additional coroners in Dublin as well as additional temporary coroners across the State. Ministers yesterday ...

A wide-ranging consultation to inform the development of proposals for comprehensive reform of the Coroner Service in Ireland has been launched. The public consultation will run until ...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of the parents of a newborn boy who died following a difficult birth. Delivering judgment for the Court of ...

Medical evidence shows "no connection" between the Covid vaccination administered to a 14-year-old boy and his death 24 days later, a coroner has found. Patrick O'Connor, coroner ...

Members of the public with experience of the coronial service have been invited to join a new advisory committee as part of a process of reform. A ...

Coronial data on unidentified human remains has been published by the Department of Justice for the first time in a bid to achieve breakthroughs in unsolved missing ...

Eamon Harrington, partner at Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT), discusses a recent case which touched on the issue of disclosing a coroner's notes. A recent decision of the ...

The High Court has dismissed a challenge by parents of a newborn baby who died shortly after his birth against a coroner’s verdict that the child died ...

Proposals to allow coroners in Northern Ireland to hold inquests into deaths abroad have gone out for consultation. The consultation, which will run until 22 December 2022, ...

Special jury provisions will be introduced for the Stardust inquests through legislation now being drafted, the government has announced. The legislation will allow the Dublin coroner to ...

Information to assist bereaved families involved with the inquest process has been published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The new Information Note on the ...

Doireann O'Mahony BL, barrister and co-author of Medical Inquests (2022, Clarus Press), suggests priorities for the Oireachtas justice committee's forthcoming examination of the inquest process. The news ...

Ireland's coronial system is "not fit for purpose" and root-and-branch reform is decades overdue, according to a damning new report. Professor Phil Scraton and Dr Gillian McNaull, ...