Simon Connolly appeared before the Senior Coroner for Derby and Chesterfield, who sat with a jury, to represent a leading national provider of secure mental health services following the self-inflicted death of a detained female patient.

We are delighted to announce that Simon Connolly has been appointed as Assistant Coroner for the Durham and Darlington coroner area. 
Simon is a specialist and expert inquest practitioner, with inquests constituting his principal area of practice. He will sit part time whilst continuing with his busy inquest and healthcare regulatory practice for which he has been Ranked as Tier 1 in The Legal 500 (2023) for Inquests and Inquiries and Band 2 in Chambers & Partners (2023)

Mr Nash was a 26-year-old law student who remotely consulted with four Primary Care clinicians about an unresolving ear infection during the nineteen-day period which preceded his admission to hospital and at a time of significantly increased COVID-19 pressures.

The GMC’s case before the IOT was supported by expert clinical pharmacological evidence which Simon argued was largely clinically flawed in ignoring the MHRA’s authorisation of the relevant IVNT products for wholesale use in the evolving field of aesthetic medicine

The Senior Coroner called evidence from senior individuals at Astra-Zeneca and the MHRA to explain the process and framework for the testing, approval and monitoring of the vaccine and to explain why immediate action was not taken in response to that taken in Europe.

Simon Connolly represented a tele-radiology company and its employed radiologist in inquest proceedings touching upon the death of Miss KT; an eighteen-year-old student paramedic who, in February 2021, was offered and accepted the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in connection with her vocational studies.

This is the first in a series of articles considering the Human Rights Act 1998 (‘HRA’) and the Covid-19 pandemic. The first group is designed as a general reminder/ overview of claims under the Human Rights Act 1998, in particular claims arising from alleged breaches of Article 2 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

This was an application by the GPhC to extend interim orders for the suspension of the respondent husband and wife pharmacists who were co-directors of a company which owned three pharmacies.

It’s now June 2020. Two years have passed since the publication of Professor Sir Norman Williams’ review of gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare, prompted in consequence of the sorry saga of Dr Bawa-Garba, in which Professor Williams recommended that the GMC ought to be stripped of its power to appeal determinations of the MPTS, which was immediately adopted by Government. And yet, here we are still.

The appellant was the head teacher of a primary school in the West Midlands. She was dismissed from her post in July 2011 following disciplinary proceedings which arose in consequence of her failure to disclose the fact of her personal relationship with a man who had been convicted of offences involving the making and possessing […]

R (on the application of Carole Smith) v HM Assistant Coroner for North West Wales and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (2020) EWHC 781 (Admin)

Simon Connolly represented a Local Authority in connection with the death of an elderly, vulnerable person.