A SURREY INQUEST.

The coroner's inquest.

(a) He can make no effective ruling as to the steps any doctor should take in relation to any patient before death—even where that death, when it occurs, will fall within the coroner's jurisdiction; (b) He may indicate—as anyone else may—the type of deaths which he wishes to be reported to him—for example all deaths within 24 h of any operation, but there is no legal requirement upon anyone to ...

Napoleon's death. An inquest

From inquest to insight.

BACKGROUND In March 1995, The Chief Medical Examiner, Province of Manitoba, ordered an inquest into the deaths of 12 children who died in 1994 while undergoing or shortly after having undergone cardiac surgery at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The inquest spanned over five years, and resulted in almost 50,000 pages of transcript, including the testimony of more than 80 wi...

Surrey County Council

Coping with a coroner’s inquest: a psychiatrist’s guide†

During the period 2000–2004 the average annual suicide rate in England and Wales was 10.2 deaths per 100 000 population over 10 years of age. About a quarter of those who take their own lives are in contact with mental health services in the year before their death. This means that an average in-patient, sector or community psychiatrist is likely to experience the death of at least one patient ...