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The Coroners Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 71) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated for England and Wales enactments relating to coroners and repealed statutes from 1275 to 1882 which had ceased to be in force or had become necessary.
The Act contains measures to reform the coroner system. According to the Institute of Legal Executives , "There is provision, carefully circumscribed, for the establishment of a judicial inquiry under the 2005 Inquiries Act to take the place of an inquest, where there is highly sensitive evidence (typically intercept) and it would not be ...
The Coroners (Amendment) Act 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 59) The Coroners Act 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 31) The Coroners Act 1980 (c. 38) The Coroners Juries Act 1983 (c. 31) The Coroners Act 1988 (c. 13) The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25) The Coroners (Ireland) Acts 1829 to 1881 was the collective title of the following Acts: [1]
English: An Act to amend the law relating to coroners, to investigation of deaths and to certification and registration of deaths; to amend the criminal law; to make provision about criminal justice and about dealing with offenders; to make provision about the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses; to make provision relating to the security of court and other buildings; to make provision ...
The coroner will also investigate when a death is deemed violent or unnatural, where the cause is unknown, where a death is the result of poisoning or industrial injury, or if it occurred in police custody or prison. The coroner's court is a court of law, and accordingly the coroner may summon
A coroner must summon a jury for an inquest if the death was not a result of natural causes and occurred when the deceased was in state custody (for example in prison, police custody, or whilst detained under the Mental Health Act 1983); or if it was the result of an act or omission of a police officer; or if it was a result of a notifiable accident, poisoning or disease. [5]
Real Actions Act 1275 [7] c. 47 In what Case the Nonage of the Heir of the Dissesor or Disseisee shall not prejudice. — repealed for England and Wales by Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125) and for Ireland by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 98)
Additionally, a coroner's jury only determines cause of death; its ruling does not commit a person to trial. While grand juries, which did have the power to indict, were abolished in the United Kingdom by 1948 (after being effectively stopped in 1933), coroner's juries retained those powers until the Criminal Law Act 1977.