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R v HM Coroner for Exeter and East Devon ex p Sharon Palmer

Authors / Contributors: Bridget Dolan KC , Debra Powell KC
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R v HM Coroner for Exeter and East Devon ex p Sharon Palmer
   
Issue: Issue: The circumstances in which a court might interfere with a coroner’s decision; whether, in circumstances where it was not possible to say that death had not been caused during a period of lawful restraint, a verdict of unlawful killing could be left to the jury.
   
Court: Court of Appeal
   
Reference:   FC3 97/7452/D
   
Judge(s): Lord Woolf MR, Ward and Mantell LJJ
   
Date: 10 December 1997