Dominic Ruck Keene

Inquests

Dominic represents the entire spectrum of families, organisations/institutions, GPs, and healthcare providers at inquests. Building on his personal injury practice, he has a particular expertise in inquests involving assessment and management of risk/health and safety issues. He is also a specialist in inquests involving mental health issues and/or detained individuals, and regularly appears at Article 2 and jury inquests into prison deaths as well as those concerning formally and informally admitted mental health patients, as well those being treated in the community.

Selected Cases

• Inquest into the death of Andrew Phillips: inquest following death at triathlon involving issues around appropriate course/safety plan design as well as medical plan and treatment given.
• Inquest into death of X: Acted for Air Ambulance Service at inquest into resuscitative hysterotomy.
• Inquests into death of X, Y and Z: Acted for Air Ambulance Service at three separate inquests into deaths following fatal stabbings.
• Inquest into the death of Nimo Younis: Represented NHS Trust at the inquest into the death while AWOL of an informally admitted mental health patient.
• Inquest into the death of Osman Ahmednur: Represented NHS trusts at the inquest into the suicide of former Eritrean refugee.
• Inquest into the death of Richard Handley: Appeared for family in inquest into the death of a 33 year old man with Down’s Syndrome and mental health issues who was living in supported housing and died from constipation.
• Inquest into the death of JB: Represented NHS Trust at the inquest into the death of patient in a mental health hospital.
• Inquest into the death of SG: Appeared for NHS Trust at the inquest into the death of patient from accidental overmedications.
• Inquest into the death of HL: Acted for family at inquest into the suicide of detained mental health patient while on s.17 leave.
• Inquest into the death of Barry Tucker: Appeared for family in inquest into death of a cancer patient who died having been discharged prematurely.
• Inquest into the death of Daniel Chapman: Appeared for NHS Trust in inquest into death of mental health patient who died while being treated in the community and living in supported accommodation from an overdose of legal highs.
• Inquest into the death of George Sutcliffe: Appeared for family in inquest into death of elderly patient where issues over whether should have been discharged earlier and avoided terminal decline while admitted.
• Inquest into the death of Glenn Jordan: Appeared for family in inquest into death of informal admitted mental health patient who hung himself while in hospital.
• Inquest into the death of Davindar Lal Seth: Appeared for family in inquest into the death of a patient who aspirated vomit while in intensive care and suffered cardiac arrest.
• Inquest into the death of Sally Ahmed-Chamberlain: Appeared for hospital in inquest into suicide of someone previously under care of mental health services.
• Inquest into the death of Henry Hughes: Appeared for hospital in inquest into death of informal admitted mental health patient who hung himself while on leave from hospital.