Interested persons and legal representatives

Interested Persons

A number of people are entitled to ask relevant questions of witnesses at an inquest hearing, so long as they persuade the Coroner that they are one of the following:

• a parent, spouse, child, partner and representing the estate of the deceased;
• anyone who gains from a life insurance policy on the deceased;
• any insurer having issued such a policy;
• anyone whose actions the Coroner believes may have caused or contributed to the death, accidentally or otherwise;
• the chief officer of police (who may only ask witnesses questions through a lawyer);
• any person appointed by a government department to attend the inquest;

In addition, any other person may seek to persuade the Coroner they have a proper interest in the inquest proceedings and, if the Coroner agrees, they too may question witnesses. Anyone the Coroner designates as entitled to question witnesses is called an Interested Person.

List of Lawyers

COUNSEL TO THE INQUEST:	MS ALISON HEWITT (counsel)
INTERESTED  PERSONS:
INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION (IPCC)	MR ANDREW O’CONNOR (counsel) MS NORANNE GRIFFITH (solicitor)
FAMILY	MR MATTHEW RYDER QC MS ALISON MACDONALD (counsel) TUCKERS (solicitors)
METROPLITAN POLICE SERVICE (MPS)	MS SAMANTHA LEEK (counsel) MPS Department of Legal Services  (solicitors)
PC HARWOOD	MR PATRICK GIBBS QC MS CLAIR DOBBIN (counsel) REYNOLDS DAWSON (solicitors)
CITY OF LONDON POLICE (CLP)	MR BARNEY BRANSTON (counsel) Chief Assistant Solicitor, Comptroller and City Solicitor's Department on behalf of the City of London Police (solicitor)

 

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