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Coronial-law [2025] NICoroner 5

Crawford, Inquest Touching Upon the Death Of (Ruling on Review of Anonymity of PC02 & PC03)

Crawford, Inquest Touching Upon the Death Of (Ruling on Review of Anonymity of PC02 & PC03) [2025] NICoroner 5 (29 May 2025)

The coroner lifted anonymity for two deceased soldiers, PC02 and PC03, finding no reason to keep it after their deaths, and formally closed the inquest.

  • Anonymity-of-witnesses
  • Open-justice
  • Legacy-inquests
  • Convention-rights
  • Coronial-law
  • Anonymity
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Public-law [2024] NICoroner 14

Doherty & Anor, Inquest into the Deaths Of (Re Ruling on Anonymity and Screening Application - PW16)

Doherty & Anor, Inquest into the Deaths Of (Re Ruling on Anonymity and Screening Application - PW16) [2024] NICoroner 14 (21 February 2024)

The coroner granted PW16 anonymity, screening, and permission to give evidence remotely, accepting that his fear for his and his family’s safety was real.

  • Anonymity
  • Witness-protection
  • Special-measures
  • Security-risk
  • Video-evidence
  • Video-link-evidence
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Coronial-law [2024] NICoroner 1

Doherty & Anor, Inquest into the Deaths Of (Re Ruling on Anonymity and Screening Application - PW9)

Doherty & Anor, Inquest into the Deaths Of (Re Ruling on Anonymity and Screening Application - PW9) [2024] NICoroner 1 (09 January 2024)

The Coroner’s Court in Northern Ireland refused PW9 anonymity in the Doherty and Fleming inquest, but granted screening so he could give evidence in person.

  • Anonymity
  • Screening
  • Security-risk
  • Protection-of-witnesses
  • Inquest-anonymity
  • Witness-screening
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Coronial-law [2023] NICoroner 16

Doherty & Anor, Inquest Touching Upon the Deaths of (Ruling on Application by Certain Witnesses to Give Evidence Remotely)

Doherty & Anor, Inquest Touching Upon the Deaths of (Ruling on Application by Certain Witnesses to Give Evidence Remotely) [2023] NICoroner 16 (20 October 2023)

The coroner allowed five military witnesses to give evidence remotely in the inquest, finding that security risks and practicality made live link evidence just and proportionate.

  • Remote-evidence
  • Special-measures
  • Anonymity
  • Screening
  • Public-interest-immunity
  • Open-justice
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Coronial-law [2023] NICoroner 9

McNally, Doris,Ryan, Re Inquest into the deaths of

McNally, Doris,Ryan, Re Inquest into the deaths of [2023] NICoroner 9 (12 January 2023)

The coroner refused to excuse Soldier F from oral evidence in the inquest, but granted special measures including anonymity, screening, and live link.

  • Special-measures-for-vulnerable-witnesses
  • Oral-evidence
  • Anonymity
  • Article-2-echr
  • Article-3-echr
  • Coroners'-procedure
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Criminal-law [2021] NICC 2

R v Soldier A and Soldier C (Ruling on application for anonymity)

R v Soldier A and Soldier C (Ruling on application for anonymity) [2021] NICC 2 (19 April 2021)

The Crown Court granted anonymity to two defendants, finding that a real risk to their lives outweighed the normal principle of open justice.

  • Anonymity
  • Open-justice
  • Right-to-life
  • Fair-trial
  • Criminal-procedure
  • Human-rights
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Privacy-law [2017] NIQB 139

TKR & Anor v BBC (Costs; Anonymity: Reporting Restrictions)

TKR & Anor v BBC (Costs; Anonymity: Reporting Restrictions) [2017] NIQB 139 (09 February 2017)

The court reserved costs to trial and maintained anonymity and reporting restrictions because of an ongoing criminal investigation and a risk of prejudice.

  • Anonymity
  • Reporting-restrictions
  • Costs
  • Open-justice
  • Interim-injunctions
  • Balancing-article-8-and-article-10-rights
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Employment-law [2015] NIIT 01334_15IT

Barato De Oliveira v Zio Mediterranean Ltd & Ors

Barato De Oliveira v Zio Mediterranean Ltd & Ors [2015] NIIT 01334_15IT (08 December 2015)

On review, the tribunal clarified that interest on a ÂŁ10,000 injury-to-feelings award runs from 3 February 2014 to 2 October 2015 at 8% per annum, and amended the decision to preserve anonymity.

  • Reasonable-adjustments
  • Victimisation
  • Interest-on-awards
  • Anonymity-of-comparators
  • Employment-law
  • Disability-discrimination
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Tort [2010] NIQB 108

A (A Minor) & Ors v A Health & Social Services Trust

A (A Minor) & Ors v A Health & Social Services Trust [2010] NIQB 108 (13 October 2010)

The court held that healthy children born after an IVF mix-up had no legally recognisable loss or damage, so their negligence claims were dismissed.

  • Duty-of-care
  • Negligence
  • Wrongful-birth
  • Loss-and-damage
  • Anonymity
  • Public-policy
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Employment-law [2007] NICA 19

JR5 v Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

JR5 v Department of Agriculture and Rural Development [2007] NICA 19 (31 May 2007)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland held that an industrial tribunal could, where necessary, order deletion or omission from the public register to protect a claimant’s identity.

  • Register-deletion
  • Anonymity
  • Procedural-fairness
  • Gender-reassignment-discrimination
  • Interpretation-of-tribunal-powers
  • Industrial-tribunal-procedure
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