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R (Boyce) v Senior Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool (Middlesbrough Borough Council and Tees Valley Care Ltd as Interested Parties)

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R (Boyce) v Senior Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool (Middlesbrough Borough Council and Tees Valley Care Ltd as Interested Parties)
   
Issue: Whether a teenager subject to a care order who was resident in a care home was in state detention such that the state’s procedural duty under Art 2 applied to her inquest.
   
Court: High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, Administrative Court
   
Reference:   CO/4780/2020
   
Neutral Citation:   [2022] EWHC 107 (Admin)
   
Judge(s): HHJ Belcher
   
Date: 21 January 2022