Archive: Coroner Reform

Coalition faces pressure over chief coroner post

A repatriation ceremony. Campaigners say coronial system is struggling to cope with fallen service personnel numbers

Parliamentarians in both the Commons and the Lords will challenge the government's plans to scrap the chief coroner post later.

Coalition U-turns on chief coroner post

Last-ditch bid to save chief coroner post

Comment: Don't let chance for coronial reform slip away

Comment: Don't let chance for coronial reform slip away

Alison Cox MBE is founder and chief executive of the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity

Appointing a chief coroner is the route to badly needed reform. The government's objections are simply ill conceived and unreasonable.

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