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The coroner service in England and Wales is supervised by the Chief Coroner, a judge appointed by the Lord Chief Justice after consulting the Lord Chancellor. The Chief Coroner provides advice, guidance and training to coroners and aims to secure uniformity of practice throughout England and Wales. The post is currently part-time.
The Chief Coroner of England and Wales is the most senior coroner in England and Wales, and supervises the work of other coroners in that jurisdiction. [1] The post was created by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. The first Chief Coroner was appointed in 2010, though he did not take up his post until 2012. [1]
Bereaved families have branded a loophole over coroners’ warnings on preventable deaths a “systemic scandal” and called for an independent body to make sure recommendations are implemented.
The powers relevant to these reports were created by schedule 5, paragraph 7 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 [2] and regulations 28 and 29 of the Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013. [3] [4] The government has commissioned a report about the relevance of PFDs to suicide prevention. [5]
The Hinds County, Mississippi, coroner's office, under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge, released an undated policy on death notifications.
The Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013 is a statutory instrument of the United Kingdom. Regulations 28 and 29 of this statutory instrument provide powers for coroners to issue reports to prevent future deaths , [ 1 ] also known as PFD reports.
Alexia Grainne Durran (born 1971) is a British barrister, judge and coroner.Since May 2024, she has been the Chief Coroner of England and Wales. [1] Having been called to the bar in 1995, she was made a circuit judge in 2014 and deputy chief coroner in 2019.
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