Helen Stone
Helen specialises in human rights law, actions against the police and public law. She has significant experience working with the families of those who have died in police and prison custody. Helen also acts in civil litigation and public law proceedings for individuals who have been failed by the criminal justice system. Helen has worked on many significant cases, including the deaths of Thomas Orchard, Sean Fitzgerald, and Sean Rigg. She was instructed by the charity INQUEST in its Supreme Court intervention regarding the stand of proof at inquests. Her current work includes inquests relating to, respectively, deaths following police restraint and a shooting by police firearms officers, civil claims against public authorities, and acting for Core Participants in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. · Hickman & Rose
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Helen Stone is a Partner at Hickman & Rose who specialises in human rights, actions against the police and public law, and acts in civil litigation for individuals failed by the criminal justice system. She has significant experience representing families of people who died in police and prison custody (including the deaths of Thomas Orchard, Sean Fitzgerald and Sean Rigg), was instructed by the charity INQUEST in its Supreme Court intervention on the standard of proof at inquests, and currently works on inquests, civil claims against public authorities and for Core Participants in the Undercover Policing Inquiry.