[2002] EWCA Civ 390

Public scrutiny and the involvement of a deceased's next of kin were not requirements that needed to be discharged for a State to fulfill its duty to investigate a death under Art.2 European Convention on Human Rights. An inquest jury could give a verdict of neglect when necessary so as to comply with Art.2 of the Convention. * Leave to appeal to the House of Lords granted.

CA (Civ Div) (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Laws LJ, Dyson LJ)

27/03/2002