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18 September 2015
Issue: 7668 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Coroner

Wilson v HM Senior Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull [2015] EWHC 2561 (Admin), [2015] All ER (D) 38 (Sep)

The claimant consultant cardiothoracic surgeon issued proceedings, contending that a sentence should be removed from the defendant coroner’s narrative conclusions as to his three patients. The Divisional Court, in dismissing the application, held that on the evidence before her, the coroner had been entitled to have come to the conclusion that she had and it could not be described as irrational.

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