Cornerstone on Inquests and Inquiries

Cornerstone on Inquests and Inquiries is designed with one overarching question in mind: "what will a practitioner or party, about to walk into an inquest or public inquiry, need to know?".

List of contents

Part 1: Inquests
1. General Principles
2. Art. 2 Inquests and Reports to Prevent Further Deaths
3. Evidence and Witnesses
4. Inquest procedure and funding
5. Special types of inquest
6. Challenging inquest decisions
Part 2: Public Inquiries
7. General principles of public inquiries
8. Procedure and funding
9. Evidence
10. Challenging inquiry decisions
Part 3: Non-Statutory Inquiries
11. Parliamentary Inquiries
12. Private and independent inquiries

About the author

Sam Fowles is a public lawyer with a particular interest in constitutional, administrative, information, and planning/environmental law, inquests, and public inquiries.

Product details

• Authors: Sam Fowles
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.12.2025
• EAN: 9781526531773
• ISBN: 978-1-5265-3177-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cornerstone on...
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; England, Wales, Europe, Law, LAW / General, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Western Continental Europe, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general