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Coroners
Coroners Role
The Coroners Society provides restricted information to the public. Full access to their site is limited to members of the society, those who are Coronial Office holders in England and Wales. Their site does however provide a general overview of the role and function of the Society in England and Wales.
The History of Coroners
The role goes back to the establishment of the formal office in 1194. According to the Coroners’ Society, “It is in the general interests of the community that any sudden, unnatural or unexplained deaths should be investigated and, to reflect this, the role of the Coroner has adapted over the eight centuries since the office was formally established in 1194, from being a form of medieval tax gatherer to an independent judicial officer charged with the investigation of sudden, violent or unnatural death.”
Since sudden, violent or unnatural deaths need to be accounted for the role and the legal structures surrounding it has evolved alongside the wider political and legal landscape in England and Wales. The site goes on to describe the early functions of the coroner right though to the present day activities, detailed in the Coroner and Justice Act 2009, implemented on the 25th July 2013.
It is in the general interests of the community that any sudden, unnatural or unexplained deaths should be investigated."
When a death is reported
According to gov.uk, a doctor may report the death to a coroner if the:
- cause of death is unknown
- death was violent or unnatural
- death was sudden and unexplained
- person who died was not visited by a medical practitioner during their final illness
- medical certificate isn’t available
- person who died wasn’t seen by the doctor who signed the medical certificate within 14 days before death or after they died
- death occurred during an operation or before the person came out of anaesthetic
- medical certificate suggests the death may have been caused by an industrial disease or industrial poisoning
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