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21/11/2007
Diana Inquest Faces Crisis
The fact that a UK coroner has no power to order crucial witnesses to give evidence to a hearing has again been highlighted at the Princess Diana Inquest in London - and this time it may halt the case.
Two judges have now ruled that documentary evidence from the paparazzi cannot be admitted without cross examination at the inquest.
The ruling places a major question mark over how the inquest is to proceed when looking at evidence from the paparazzi, given that the French Government has decided not to use its own powers to compel the photographers to travel to the London court.
The ruling follows a legal challenge by the family of Diana's driver Henri Paul to the earlier decision of coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker.
He previously decided that statements by paparazzi who pursued Diana to the scene of her death could be heard at the inquest in London even though the photographers refused to attend and face cross-examination.
(BMcC)
Two judges have now ruled that documentary evidence from the paparazzi cannot be admitted without cross examination at the inquest.
The ruling places a major question mark over how the inquest is to proceed when looking at evidence from the paparazzi, given that the French Government has decided not to use its own powers to compel the photographers to travel to the London court.
The ruling follows a legal challenge by the family of Diana's driver Henri Paul to the earlier decision of coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker.
He previously decided that statements by paparazzi who pursued Diana to the scene of her death could be heard at the inquest in London even though the photographers refused to attend and face cross-examination.
(BMcC)
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