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For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, or unexplained death. Against the background of the coroner's role in historic England, this book explains how sudden death was investigated by magistrates in Scotland.
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Coronial Law is an area that attracts great public scrutiny, reflected in the recent establishment of the office of the Chief Coroner, and the number of Judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal made deputy assistant coroners to particularly sensitive inquests. It is also an area of law that has changed significantly in recent years since the new Coroners and Justice Act 2009 came into force in 2013. This book provides practitioners with an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the law of coroners and inquests. Written by barristers practising in the field, it addresses changes to the structure and jurisprudence of coroners' courts in a straightforward, accessible manner. The book is ...
Coroners hold an influential position in circumstances of sudden death, yet many of those who have to deal with coroners on a regular basis do so from a position of ignorance concerning the coroner's role. The work undertaken by the coroner of the inquest has great significance. professional reputations can be damaged in a very public arena, and verdicts of "neglect" and "unlawful killing" increase every year.
Analysis of British system; compares Scottish and English inquests; police; coroners court; legal aid; racism, sexism; recommendations; non-Aboriginal material.
This volume contains 582 inquests held by Sussex Coroners during the reign of Elizabeth I that are known to survive. They arose from murder, manslaughter, homicide committed accidentally and in self-defence, suicide, accidental death, sudden death from natural causes and the death of prisoners.
This is the first empirical law book to investigate coroners’ recommendations, and the extent of their impact and implementation. Based on an extensive study, the book analyses over 2000 New Zealand Coroners’ recommendations and includes more than 100 interviews and over 40 surveys, as well as Coroner’s Court findings and litigation from Canada, England, Ireland, Australia and Scotland. This timely book is an overdue investigation of the highly debated questions: do coroners’ recommendations save lives and how often are they implemented?