Coroners will deliver fuller verdicts after inquests

Impact of the growing use of narrative verdicts by coroners on geographic variations in suicide: analysis of coroners' inquest data.

BACKGROUND Coroners' death certificates form the basis of suicide statistics in England and Wales. Recent increases in coroners' use of narrative verdicts may affect the reliability of local and national suicide rates. METHOD We used Ministry of Justice data on inquests held between 2008 and 2009 and Local Authority suicide data (2001-02 and 2008-09) to investigate variations between coroners...

Getting away with murder? The suppression of coroners' inquests in early Victorian England and Wales.

Coroners’ records and newspaper reports of inquests are essential sources for local studies of homicide, suicide or fatal accidents, but in some parts of the country violent deaths that occurred in the 1840s and 1850s may be significantly under-recorded in this material. Historian and barrister J.D.J. Havard drew attention to the actions taken in this period by the magistrates of several counti...

Will WAP Deliver the Wireless Internet?

W ith users increasingly adopting Internet-enabled cellular phones and other hand-held devices, vendors are looking for platform-independent wireless technologies to help these devices effectively access Internet content and services, and communicate with each other. Providing this access is particularly challenging for handheld devices because of their small screens, low memory and power, and ...

Will markets deliver low carbon power generation ?

This paper questions whether UK competitive electricity markets, as currently configured, will deliver the low carbon power sector that is a necessary condition of meeting ambitious UK CO2 emission targets. It analyses their historical development within an essentially fossil based system, and potential weaknesses in relation to low carbon investments. These include concerns over operational, c...

Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver?