Rajkiran Arhestey

Inquests

Kiran has significant inquest experience and accepts instructions on behalf of families, Trusts, GPs, government bodies and private companies. She has experience of inquests which engage Article 2 and/or jury inquests as well as inquests concerning prisons, mental health hospitals, medical treatment, and deaths on railways.

She is a co-editor along with Sir Neil Garnham, Caroline Cross and Matthew Hill of the 2^nd edition of the Inquest Book and co-author of the chapter on Article 2 inquests with Peter Skelton KC.

The Legal 500 recognises Kiran as a ‘Leading Junior’ for Inquests and Inquiries.

Selected Cases

• Re EFD (ongoing): Acting for an Integrated Care Board (direct access) in an Article 2 jury inquest arising out of the self-inflicted death of a young person detained in hospital.
• Re POR (2025): Represented an occupational health company (direct access) in an inquest arising out of the self-inflicted death of a serving police officer.
• Re SJS (2024): Represented a train company in a 4-day inquest concerning an individual who took his own life by jumping in front of a train.
• Re BG (2024): Represented the family of a young woman who took her own life on a psychiatric ward during a lengthy inpatient admission in a 6-day Article 2 jury inquest.
• Re DW (2024): Represented the family of a woman who died in hospital from a bowel perforation following amputation of both her legs and insertion of a feeding jejunostomy.
• Re MR (2023): Represented the family of a young man who died in prison after smoking Spice.
• Re: CR (2022): Represented family in a 4-day inquest concerning the death of a young man with schizophrenia by suicide. The Coroner concluded that the clinician should have offered CR a trial of the anti-psychotic clozapine and that the failure to do so contributed to the death.
• Re LS (2023): Represented the family of a woman who was admitted to hospital following a fall, and developed sepsis which was not recognised or treated and subsequently died.
• Re: TS (2022): Represented a private healthcare company which provided healthcare services in a prison in a 2-week Article 2 jury inquest following the death of a prisoner from HIV/AIDs-related complications. No criticisms were made of the company.