Coroners' Courts: A Guide to Law and Practice - Hardcover

Dorries OBE, Christopher

9780199566112: Coroners' Courts: A Guide to Law and Practice

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ISBN 10: 0199566119 ISBN 13: 9780199566112

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2014

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Coroners' Courts follows the coroner's investigation of a death from initial report to the inquest conclusion and subsequent issues including prevention of future deaths reports. The book is an easy to read reference for those involved in the coronial system. It also provides clear, step by step guidance for the advocate and practical advice for the witness covering key topics such as preparing for an inquest, report writing, and attending court. In addition, it includes dedicated chapters on mass fatality incidents and treasure. Written by a full-time coroner with more than 20 years experience, it provides a unique insight into the working of a coroner's court with explanations of the coroner's duties, the post-mortem examination, the purpose of the inquest, and the nature of the coroner's conclusion.

This book contains a clear, practical treatment of all topics from routine casework to the complex effects of the Human Rights legislation. Re-written to encompass the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, it also describes the potential relationship between the coroner and the Medical Examiner's Office.

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Review

Review from previous edition This new edition of Coroners' Courts is a masterly description of the new law and procedures (HH Judge Peter Thornton QC, Chief Coroner, from the foreword)

Coroners' Courts is a very good book ... which deserves to take its place on the bookshelf of everyone who regularly comes into contact with the coroner. (Medical Law Review)

No serious practitioner of coroners law should fail to read this book...an accurate exposition of the modern law from a repected full time coroner...flows easily, holding the readers interest and attention. (Science & Justice, vol44 iss4)

No one whose work takes them into the coroners courts can afford to be without a copy...finely detailed but at all times lucid and accessible. (New Law Journal)

Christopher Dorries has written a comprehensive text covering the work of the coroner and relevant law. His style is easy to read and entertaining, with detailed references to relevent statute and case law. The book will be especially useful to those in contact with the coroner, whether a doctor reporting a death, or those more directly involved with inquests and post-mortems. (Dr Clive Saffer)

...This book is both useful and a genuinely good read and I can thoroughly recommend it. (The Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists)

..This should be compulsory reading for all police officers and doctors...this books great virtue is it's rigorous practicality...it will become a classic. I will not be going to an inquest without it. (Charles Foster, Barrister, 6 Pump Court)