Anomalies of the English lawChester, S. Beach (Samuel Beach)
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Anomalies of the English law
Chester, S. Beach (Samuel Beach)
Law; Law -- Great Britain -- History
In section 10, there is provision for the appointment of standing
“medical investigators or pathologists” in each coroner’s district
to assist the coroner in his inquiries and inquests and to make
_post mortem_ examinations. The next section refers to the payment
of ordinary medical witnesses, as opposed to the coroner’s “medical
investigators or pathologists.” Section 12 of the Bill makes some
sentimental provision in connection with the coroner’s jury and the
question of “viewing the body.” It is of no great importance or
interest one way or the other. Section 13, on the contrary, is of
definite value from a legal standpoint. “Every coroner,” it settles,
“shall cause a record of every inquiry and inquest to be kept, and
shall transmit such record to the clerk of the [county] council or
borough council, as the case may be, and it shall become the property
of such county council or borough council, as the case may be, and such
record shall be so made and transmitted as the Secretary of State may
by regulation prescribe.”
In section 14, it is provided that “The Secretary of State may frame
rules and orders for regulating the procedure or practice of coroners’
inquiries and coroners’ courts, and forms of proceedings therein, the
fees to be charged for copies of depositions, records, or any document
in the custody of the coroner or the local authority, and any other
matter not regulated by statute on which it may, in the opinion of the
Secretary of State, be desirable to prescribe the practice of coroners,
and may from time to time amend such rules, orders, forms and fees.”
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