Minute Book for law firms and advocates
For inquest and clinical negligence teams, and the advocates who support families. Find what a board was told about a risk and when, and read the coroners’ reports sent to an organisation.
What you can do with it
- Find what a board or one of its committees was told about a risk, and when, with the page to cite.
- Read the coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports sent to an organisation, and see whether each response is published on judiciary.uk.
- Build a timeline from papers across several years, keeping each passage in a folder with a private note.
- Watch a phrase at one organisation and hear when new papers mention it.
Searches to try
- "duty of candour"
How boards report on being open with patients and families after harm.
- "prevention of future deaths"
Board papers that discuss coroners’ reports and the responses to them.
- "patient safety incident investigation"
Investigations reported to boards and their quality committees.
- maternity "serious incident"
Maternity incidents reported to boards.
Searching is free, with no account. Results come from the papers we hold, and we don’t hold every organisation’s papers for every year. See which years we hold for each organisation.
What helps most
Coroners’ reports and the 56-day tracker
Prevention of Future Deaths reports from judiciary.uk, with who each was sent to. Recipients have 56 days to respond: for each one we show the deadline and whether a response is published on judiciary.uk.
Watched phrases
Watch a phrase everywhere, in one nation or at one organisation. When new papers or coroners’ reports mention it, we email you the passage with a link to the source.
Folders and notes
Save a passage at its page, or a whole document, with a private note. Download a folder’s references when you write up.
Citations ready to paste
Every result has Copy reference: a simple reference, or OSCOLA, Harvard or Vancouver, or a download for Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley. Each gives the page, the meeting date and the original’s address.
One account for your team
The Organisation plan puts colleagues on one account with one bill. Invite people by email, or let anyone with your email domain join. Share folders across the team.
The plan that suits you: Organisation
£24 per seat a month or £240 per seat a year, at least 3 seats
For teams: everyone on one account, with one bill, paid by card or invoice. Each person gets their own watched phrases and folders.
- Open our copy of documents with no monthly limit, where the publisher allows it
- 25 watched phrases per person
- Folders with no limit on saved items
- Searching, following and a link to every original, as on Free
A solicitor or advocate working alone may find Pro is enough. Pro: £12 a month or £120 a year.
Compare every planStart with the organisations you watch
Create a free account, then follow an organisation from its page. No card needed, and a link to every original is always free.