R (Maguire) v Blackpool and Fylde Senior Coroner — [2025] AC 63

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R (Maguire) v Blackpool and Fylde Senior Coroner — [2025] AC 63

CORONER — Inquest — Verdict — Vulnerable incapacitous adult dying in hospital while resident at state-funded care home — Coroner finding state’s enhanced procedural obligation to investigate deaths not applying and limiting jury’s consideration to how deceased came to die — Whether state’s substantive obligation to protect life owed to deceased — Whether state under enhanced procedural obligation to investigate circumstances of death — Whether j…