WA Coroner Philip Urquhart rejects push to remove himself from inquest into youth detention death

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-07/wa-coroner-philip-urquhart-to-rejects-recuse-bid/104439814

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  1. Requesting recusal is pretty high risk, because it’s likely to antagonise the person who’s been accused of bias. And somewhat unrealistic to expect that a coroner who had been working on an inquest for 11 months would recuse himself, presumably requiring the whole process to be restarted. She must be expecting some seriously adverse findings against her.