AC-2024-LON-002499 - [2025] EWHC 2131 (Admin)

As permission must be refused in respect of the challenge to the unlawfulness of the coroner’s conclusion on article 2, necessarily, the narrative conclusion grounds fall away, not surviving the unarguability of the operational duty ground.

To the extent that the other grounds challenge the coroner’s findings of fact, these are matters classically for the coroner. She presided over an extended inquest with live evidence and extensive documentation (the supplementary renewal bundle runs to 1132 pages). Her factual conclusions do not reach the threshold of arguable irrationality.

Permission is refused. The court is grateful to Ms Maragh for her first-class submissions. No one could have said more.