High Court provides clarity about the enhanced art 2 investigative duty

R (Morahan) v HM Coroner for West London [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin)

Welcome clarification of the case law and the circumstances when the enhanced investigative duty under art 2 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) will be automatically engaged has been offered by the High Court in a recent case involving a patient with a long history of psychiatric illness and frequent episodes of in-patient treatment who had been found dead in her flat.