The Weekly Law Reports
[2001] 2 WLR 710
Queen's Bench Division
Terry
v
East Sussex Coroner
2000 Nov 15;
29
Lord Woolf CJ and Rafferty J
Coroner
— Inquest
— Duty to hold
— Coroner satisfied following post mortem that inquest unnecessary
— Certificate issued stating death due to natural causes
— Deceased's family subsequently claiming new evidence showing death due to unnatural causes
— Whether coroner having power to order inquest
— Whether functus officio
—
Coroners Act 1988 (c 13), ss. 13, 19