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(December, 2020, Edited by Alison Hewitt and Jonathan Dixey)In this special edition issue, we bring together 8 articles focusing on the judgment of the Supreme Court in R (Maughan) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46 and what this is likely to mean for coroners’ investigations and inquests.Firstly, we review Maughan itself and how it was that a majority of the Supreme Court determined that in inquests, the conclusions of suicide and unlawful killing may be established to the civil standard of proof, and whether there may be reason to revisit the decision.As many inquest practitioners will now need to consider the possibility of a conclusion of unlawful killing, we examine the three manslaughter offences:
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