Inquests

Peter acts for all participants in inquests, including families, commercial organisations, state bodies, and coroners. Many of his cases arise from high-profile events, are acutely sensitive, and involve multiple parties. He is experienced in providing strategic advice before, during and after proceedings before Coroners and in the High Court, Divisional Court, and Court of Appeal.

In 2024, he represented the families of the victims of the terrorist attack in Reading in 2020 in which three men were fatally stabbed, and the families of the patients who died from suspected over-medication at the Gosport Memorial Hospital. In 2022, he was instructed by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in the inquests into the murders by serial killer Stephen Port; and by the tram operator in the inquests arising from the 2016 Croydon tram crash.

Prior to that, Peter was Counsel to the Judge Coroners in the inquests into the 1974 terrorist bombings in Birmingham and into the sudden death of the Russian businessman Alexander Perepilichnyy.

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