Once this was known, it was obvious that the court would quash
the findings at inquest and order a new inquest.
Not exact matches
At an
inquest in 2012 jurors
found the primary cause of Mr Rigg's death was cardiac arrest and were critical of the way he was restrained by police.
The family of Private Cheryl James, 18, who was
found with gunshot wounds, has been granted permission by the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, to seek a fresh
inquest at the high court.
As expected,
inquest Judge Timothy Preston
found that Brian Sinclair was never assessed or triaged by a nurse during his 34 hours
at the hospital.
this is not a case where the impugned conduct
at this point in the proceedings can be obviously seen to have destroyed the underlying fairness, legality and legitimacy of the
Inquest, such that any impugned
findings or recommendations could not be addressed on appeal.
That's despite nearly half of all Indigenous people reporting to the recent Reconciliation Australia survey that they experience
at least one form of racial prejudice and the
findings last year of the Ms Dhu coronial
inquest that highlighted shocking treatment by police and medical staff.