Inquests

[HongKongphooey]

Why are inquests always opened and adjourned?

[murraymints]

Are they time restricted perhaps ? Have to start an inquest whether or not all necessary information is available...

[boxtops]

This is in England, other sites are googleable http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/626/coroners/5532/when_death_occurs/11

[Peter Pedant]

I wonder if it is to say there IS gonna be an inquest (and therefore count in a bloody great delay)

otherwise he releases the body along with a death certificate and the funeral can go ahead (usual delay 7 d)

For a lot of hospital deaths - they know who has died, they know where he died and why. If not even the relatives ring up the coroner and demand an inquest.

I am not sure if they do an awful lot inquests I mean

In the Gibraltar SAS inquests around 30y ago - Death on the Rock and all that stuff - There was so much security fol-de-rol that the IRA lawyer - oops lawyer for the dead men and woman - said, all you are gonna find is that these people are dead - but we know that anyway !