Polski Dzial COPFS Announces Fatal Accident Inquiries
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has announced that it will be using new legislation to hold, for the first time, a joint Fatal Accident Inquiry. The announcement follows investigations into two separate fatal accidents at motor sport events. An FAI will be held within the Lothian and Borders Sheriffdom to consider the […]
Scottish Parliament Passes Fatal Accident Inquiry Bill
New laws to modernise the Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) process have been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Bill will introduce a number of changes that the Scottish Government says will ensure a system which is effective, efficient and fair. Discretionary FAIs into the deaths of […]
Modernising the Fatal Accident Inquiry Process
The Scottish Government has recently published its Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Bill, which it says will strengthen the Fatal Accident Inquiry Process in Scotland by setting out practical measures for a system which is effective, efficient and fair. The proposals implement the remaining recommendations of Lord Cullen’s 2009 Review of […]
Bill proposed to reform FAI system
Labour MSP Patricia Ferguson has launched a consultation exercise over a proposed member’s bill to reform Scotland’s Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) System. The proposed Inquiries into Deaths (Scotland) Bill is intended to re-enact with amendments the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976 in the follow ways: “(a) to extend the scope of […]
FAI finds woman’s mineshaft death avoidable
A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) has found that the death of a woman who fell down a mineshaft might have been avoided if emergency services had rescued her sooner, reports the BBC. The 44-year-old woman had fallen down the disused shaft in East Ayrshire in 2008. She suffered severe injuries to her chest area and […]