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Date Of An Inquest
Is there any way I can find out the date of an Inquest, and also, apart from local newspapers, is there anywhere that the verdict of an Inquest is stored and can be read please ?
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I think you are gonna have to write to your local coroner and ask him. I have always found them to be stuck up so-and-sos
They are independent and their function is to decide - who's dead, when he died, and what he died from.
It is an inquiry ( er inquest ) and so there arent 'sides' which there are in just about every other court in the UK. Coroners act 1988 and there are rules to achieve this - and so what the coroner says, goes.
The inquests are public - and the players are 'warned' ( = summoned) but no one else is. All questions are thro the coroner - and so if he doesnt like a question - it doesnt get asked.
and so you get the verdict - and not much else
In the local coroners court - I am not sure if there is a notice board - 'Juicy Cases of the Week' - his papers are er his and you can apply to see them. or not.
so it is back to him, I'm afraid.
They are independent and their function is to decide - who's dead, when he died, and what he died from.
It is an inquiry ( er inquest ) and so there arent 'sides' which there are in just about every other court in the UK. Coroners act 1988 and there are rules to achieve this - and so what the coroner says, goes.
The inquests are public - and the players are 'warned' ( = summoned) but no one else is. All questions are thro the coroner - and so if he doesnt like a question - it doesnt get asked.
and so you get the verdict - and not much else
In the local coroners court - I am not sure if there is a notice board - 'Juicy Cases of the Week' - his papers are er his and you can apply to see them. or not.
so it is back to him, I'm afraid.
Thanks Peter.
I once served on a jury for an Inquest, and I was chosen as the Chair. It was a death, due to an Industrial accident.
We wanted to give a verdict that incriminated the Company, as it was clearly avoidable. But the Coroner told us what verdict we should use.
We wondered why we were there in the first place !
I once served on a jury for an Inquest, and I was chosen as the Chair. It was a death, due to an Industrial accident.
We wanted to give a verdict that incriminated the Company, as it was clearly avoidable. But the Coroner told us what verdict we should use.
We wondered why we were there in the first place !
Yes, Mikey.....the coroner had decided before the inquest what the verdict on MrG's death should be....I think being married to a doctor may have influenced her.....
She began by announcing that as C.Diff is the natural progression of an illness she didn't know why an inquest was asked for by her predecessor.....
I did change her mind and got the verdict I thought was the correct one.....x
She began by announcing that as C.Diff is the natural progression of an illness she didn't know why an inquest was asked for by her predecessor.....
I did change her mind and got the verdict I thought was the correct one.....x
In my case, in 2006, there was a dreadful accident at a local factory, caused by one of those static overhead cranes, in the storeroom where huge rolls of mild steel were kept on racks.
The company rules stated that when one of these huge rolls of steel, weighing several tons, had to be moved from one rack, to another rack, it had to be lifted up well above head height, moved along a distance, and then lifted down again to the former height. ie....UP, along and then DOWN.
But those cranes moved at very slow speeds, as you would expect for something so heavy. So the working practise was not to left them UP at all, but to just move then along at below head height.
To add to the problems, there was a slight delay when the stop button was used on the crane, and even then, it still continued to swing slightly, before finally stopping.
You can guess the rest I would imagine.....a Roll knocked into a worker and decapitated him. We on the Jury had to look at photos taken of the chap, taken by the Health and Safety Executive, and I never want to see anything like that again.
The Company gave evidence that regular re-fresher training was given, at least once a month, but you could see from the faces of the worker that were called to give evidence, that this didn't always happen, and that the management was playing lip service to the training.
We wanted to add a rider to the verdict of accidental death and say that the Company could have prevented the accident but the Coroner wouldn't have it.
The company rules stated that when one of these huge rolls of steel, weighing several tons, had to be moved from one rack, to another rack, it had to be lifted up well above head height, moved along a distance, and then lifted down again to the former height. ie....UP, along and then DOWN.
But those cranes moved at very slow speeds, as you would expect for something so heavy. So the working practise was not to left them UP at all, but to just move then along at below head height.
To add to the problems, there was a slight delay when the stop button was used on the crane, and even then, it still continued to swing slightly, before finally stopping.
You can guess the rest I would imagine.....a Roll knocked into a worker and decapitated him. We on the Jury had to look at photos taken of the chap, taken by the Health and Safety Executive, and I never want to see anything like that again.
The Company gave evidence that regular re-fresher training was given, at least once a month, but you could see from the faces of the worker that were called to give evidence, that this didn't always happen, and that the management was playing lip service to the training.
We wanted to add a rider to the verdict of accidental death and say that the Company could have prevented the accident but the Coroner wouldn't have it.
well he is there to do a glorified death certificate
and not much else
finger pointing ( death due to negligence of X company )
is NOT a function
and was stopped by a home office circular in the mid seventies. Prior - juries could bring in - Manslaughter by Dr Crippen - and there hadnt been a trial.
I think it was the Gibraltar Inquest ( SAS shoot 3 IRA men) where the lawyer Paddy McCrory representing the families of the dead men - complained,
" all you sir are going to find is that the men are dead - but we know that anyway because that is why we are here!"
"
and not much else
finger pointing ( death due to negligence of X company )
is NOT a function
and was stopped by a home office circular in the mid seventies. Prior - juries could bring in - Manslaughter by Dr Crippen - and there hadnt been a trial.
I think it was the Gibraltar Inquest ( SAS shoot 3 IRA men) where the lawyer Paddy McCrory representing the families of the dead men - complained,
" all you sir are going to find is that the men are dead - but we know that anyway because that is why we are here!"
"
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