High Court overrules coroner over patient's death

Coroners may have to hold more inquests when patients die after apparent failures in routine monitoring, following a High Court ruling last week. Lord Justice Kennedy and Mr Justice Morison ruled that a coroner was wrong to refuse an inquest into the death of a woman who died of a brain haemorrhage after giving birth to twins by caesarean section.

The coroner for inner north London, Stephen Chan, decided that an inquest on Laura Touche, …