Coroners’ cases

R (Maughan) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46

The Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on the standard of proof required in inquests for determinations concerning a death where the question is whether the deceased committed suicide. The court ruled that the civil standard of proof applied to both narrative and short-form conclusions at inquests where the issue was whether the deceased had committed suicide, and at inquests where the issue was whether there had been an unlawful killing.