Practice and Procedure

R v HM CORONER FOR LINCOLNSHIRE, EX PARTE ANNETTE HAY SUB NOM RE BRETT ANDREW HAY DECEASED (1999)

PUBLISHED February 19, 1999
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Privilege against self-incrimination at an inquest was concerned with the giving of an answer by a witness and the procedure adopted when dealing with such a claim of privilege should not be such as to give the witness complete immunity against further questioning. A verdict of "accident" may be returned where the death had been caused by some deliberate but lawful act which unforeseeably led to death.

QBD (Brooke LJ, Forbes J)

19/02/1999

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