Coroners

On Thursday a Coroners Court in London will decide on the legal framework for the inquest into the 2006 poisoning of my friend, former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko.

'Purely Criminal, State-Sponsored' Alex Goldfarb 2011

"We don't release anything," said Dianne Vertes , the deputy chief medical examiner in Erie County and a member of the board of directors at the New York State Association of County Coroners and Medical Examiners.

City Autopsy Disclosures Challenged Sean Gardiner 2012

As it progresses, NO2ID will be publishing more information but it is crucial that every MP realises how dangerous the information sharing clauses in the Coroners and Justice Bill really are.

Boing Boing 2009

Coroners have determined that Mr. Jackson died from an overdose of a combination of the anesthetic propofol and other drugs, which the singer apparently used to induce sleep.

Jackson's Doctor Pleads Not Guilty Miriam Jordan 2011

Glyn sez, "Hidden in the new Coroners and Justice Bill is one clause (cl. 152) amending the Data Protection Act. It would allow ministers to make 'Information Sharing Orders', that can alter any Act of Parliament and cancel all rules of confidentiality in order to use information obtained for one purpose to be used for another."

Boing Boing 2009

My favorite elected California remains the Coroners/Medical Examiners.

Matthew Yglesias » The High Price of Electing City Treasurers 2010

Legal | U.K. comic artists and publishers are protesting the proposed Coroners and Justice Bill which, in its current incarnation, would make it illegal to possess cartoons depicting certain forms of child abuse: "There are even fears that Watchmen, one of the industry's most critically acclaimed graphic novels, could risk being banned because one of the main superheroes sees his mother having sex when he is a young child."

Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

Further investigations into the fatal crash are not scheduled, though the British Columbia Coroners Service recommended "a comprehensive safety audit of the Whistler track" and urged the worldwide governing bodies for luge, bobsled and skeleton to take a hard look at what goes into designing, building and certifying tracks.

Nodar Kumaritashvili Report Angrily Dismissed By Dead Luger's Father AP 2010

Coroners and their deputies already had catalogued personal items and photographed the bodies.

Kin Keep Vigil at Morgue Amy Merrick 2011

* In your own words*, please ask your MP to read Part 8 (clauses 151 - 154) of the Coroners and Justice Bill, and to oppose the massive enabling powers in the "Information sharing" clause.

Boing Boing 2009