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Chapter 4 - Sudden Infant Death Investigation in the UK – the Coroner’s Perspective

from Section 3 - Legal Framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

Marta C. Cohen
Affiliation:
Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Irene B. Scheimberg
Affiliation:
Royal London Hospital
J. Bruce Beckwith
Affiliation:
Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Fern R. Hauck
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Officially ‘Custos Placitorum Coronae’ or ‘Keepers of the Pleas of the Crown’.Google Scholar
It was as late as 1846 that coroners lost the power to order forfeiture to the Crown of an object involved in a death, such as a railway locomotive.Google Scholar
A power that was not abolished until 1977.Google Scholar
R (Middleton) v. West Somerset Coroner [2004] United Kingdom House of Lords 10.Google Scholar
Section 41 Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 as amended by the Still Birth Definition Act, 1992.Google Scholar
R (T) v. HM Senior Coroner for West Yorkshire [2017] England and Wales Court of Appeal (EWCA )Civ 318.Google Scholar
R v. Inner N. London Coroner ex p Touche [2001] EWCA Civ 383.Google Scholar
www.hta.gov.uk./ (accessed 4 October 2018).Google Scholar
Worcestershire CC v. Worcestershire LSCB and HM Coroner Worcestershire [2013] England and Wales High Court 1711.Google Scholar
R v. Inner West London Coroner ex p Dallaglio (1994) 4 All ER 139.Google Scholar
R v. HM Coroner for Western District of E. Sussex ex p Homberg (1994) 158 JP 357.Google Scholar

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