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An inquiry by a coroner into the cause of a death.<\/p>\n

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An official judicial inquiry into the cause of a person’s death: carried out when the death is sudden or takes place under suspicious circumstances. The results of medical and legal investigations that have been carried out are considered by a coroner, sitting with or without a jury, and made publicly known.<\/p>\n

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An official inquiry conducted by a coroner into the cause of an individual\u2019s death. The coroner is a judicial officer who, when a death is sudden, unexpected or occurs in suspicious circumstances, considers the results of medical and legal investigation and, sitting with a jury or on his or her own, makes public the conclusions as to the cause of death. He\/she has wide powers, and, in deaths of uncertain cause, no official death certificate can be issued without his or her approval. A coroner may be legally or medically qualified (or both). In Scotland the comparable officer is the procurator fiscal.<\/p>\n

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In legal medicine, an official examination and investigation into the cause, circumstance, and manner of sudden, unexpected, violent, or unexplained death.<\/p>\n

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An official investigation conducted by a coroner to determine the cause of death when it is unknown or suspected to be unnatural.<\/p>\n

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An investigation led by a coroner to determine the reason for a sudden or violent death. In situations of unexpected death, a doctor can’t provide a death certificate unless they had been attending to the patient for some time before the death and if the demise was anticipated as a normal outcome of the ailment they were treating.<\/p>\n

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An inquiry by a coroner into the cause of a death. An official judicial inquiry into the cause of a person’s death: carried out when the death is sudden or takes place under suspicious circumstances. The results of medical and legal investigations that have been carried out are considered by a coroner, sitting with or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i"],"yoast_head":"\nInquest - Definition of Inquest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An inquiry by a coroner into the cause of a death.An official judicial inquiry into the cause of a person's death: carried out when the death is sudden or takes place under suspicious circumstances. 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