Paige Jones

Paige has a strong interest in inquest work. Prior to qualification, Paige worked at a law firm in the Northwest of England, and has experience working with bereaved families in inquests, including Article 2 and jury inquests, concerning self-inflicted deaths in prison and mental health settings such as:

• Those arising from failures in the ACCT process
• Those arising from failures to assess under the MHA,
• Those concerning failures to provide sufficient mental health care to service users in the community.
• An inquest into the death of an unborn baby following the failure of a local council to maintain trees around a major road.
• Inquests into the deaths of prison inmates who died of natural causes in which questions around the sufficiency of prison health care were raised.

Paige has appeared as an Interested Person in inquest proceedings on behalf of a number of authorities including police forces, NHS Trusts and the IOPC. This has included representing the Chief Constable of South Wales Police arising out of a death in custody which culminated in a misadventure conclusion and represented an NHS Trust in the inquest into a death following complications of surgery.

Paige is also being lead in an inquest into the death of a British soldier, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Defence

Prior to qualification, Paige worked at a law firm in the Northwest of England, and has experience working with bereaved families in inquests, often concerning self-inflicted deaths in prison and mental health settings.