• Coroners Act 2006 is an act of the Parliament of New Zealand which completely reformed the coronial services, introduced the office of Chief Coroner and...
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    Treasure Act 1996. This jurisdiction is no longer exercised by local coroners, but by specialist "coroners for treasure" appointed by the Chief Coroner. The...
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  • Act 2003 (No 67) The Coroners Amendment Act 2004 (No 40) The Coroners Act 2006 (No 38) The Coroners Act 1988 Amendment Act 2007 (No 5) The Coroners Act...
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    The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It changed the law on coroners and criminal justice in England...
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  • the Coroners Act 2006, and the first Chief Coroner, Neil MacLean, was named in December 2006 and took up the role in February 2007. The Coroners Act sets...
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  • inquests are the responsibility of a coroner, who operates under the jurisdiction of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. In some circumstances where an...
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  • believe, taken by the coroner of the county singly, when the question should be discussed, will be held to be bad." The Coroners Act 1887, section 29, therefore...
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  • entitled him to appoint others as coroners as required, and this was most likely to have been to justices of the peace. Coroners have the power to investigate...
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  • Coroners and Medical Examiners § 14. 18 C.J.S. Coroners and Medical Examiners § 16. 18 C.J.S. Coroners and Medical Examiners § 17. 18 C.J.S. Coroners...
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  • and Northern Ireland on 12 January 2010 when section 73 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 came into force, blasphemous libel having already been abolished...
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    the ACT Coroners Act 1997. The inquiry was marked by controversy, and in February 2005 the ACT Supreme Court heard an application that the coroner be disqualified...
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  • and Funds Act 1924 No. 4/1924 – Coroners (Qualification) Act 1924 No. 5/1924 – Civil Service Regulation Act 1924 No. 6/1924 – Fisheries Act 1924 No. 7/1924...
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  • and suicide pact. The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 creates the defence of "loss of control". Under section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 there are three...
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    offence has since been created by the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006. The Act applies principally to England and Wales but s.179 permits the extent...
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    inquest was the first in a series of coroners' inquiries into deaths associated with the Troubles. The Coroner ruled that the killing of Paddy McElhone...
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  • Gift Act that were enacted; the first was the UAGA of 1968, which was followed up with revisions in 1987. The most recent version was created in 2006. The...
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    file. Bazalgette subsequently destroyed the document but later told the coroners inquest that none of the shredded documents were relevant to the loss of...
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    The Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It came into force on 31 October 2009. It replaces the three separate...
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    strong evidence a missing person is dead the coroner may request an inquest under Section 23 of the Coroners Act 1962. If the Minister for Justice grants...
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    Canberra (redirect from Canberra, ACT)
    four fires between 8 and 18 January 2003 (PDF). Vol. 1. Canberra: ACT Coroners Court. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2009. Retrieved 7 June...
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    amended by section 60 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 This section was inserted by section 60(4) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. This section was...
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    Cremations Act (Scotland) Act 2016. The powers for a coroner to permit an exhumation fall outside the scope of the Burial Act 1857 and the Coroners And Justice...
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    Cyril Wecht (category American coroners)
    Coroner of Allegheny County in 1965. Four years later he was elected coroner. Wecht served as coroner from 1970 to 1980, and again from 1996 to 2006....
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    The Theatres Act 1968 (c. 54) abolished stage censorship in the United Kingdom, receiving royal assent on 26 July 1968, after passing both Houses of Parliament...
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    system including the Supreme Court, county courts, magistrates' courts, and coroners' courts. In carrying out this duty, the Lord Chancellor is required to...
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    are amended, with effect from 1 June 2011, by section 58 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. The words "or a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity"...
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    Rushen. The sheadings are now significant only as: the districts of the Coroners (although two pairs of sheadings are now combined for this purpose), and...
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    Brodie's Law is an amendment to the Victorian Crimes Act 1958 which makes serious bullying an offence punishable by a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment...
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    Ontario, coroners are licensed physicians, usually but not exclusively family physicians. In Quebec, there is a mix of medical and non-medical coroners, whereas...
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    Victims Act 2004 (Commencement No 7 and Transitional Provision) Order 2006, SI2006/3423 Criminal Justice Act 1988, s.122 Coroners and Justice Act 2009,...
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