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Legislative Process

That clarifies the position and is helpful to those of us who have experienced the lengthy delays associated with coroners’ courts. But what will happen when the complaint is about not an individual case, but a multitude of cases—in other words, when the core complaint is about the coroner himself? In such a situation, reference might have to be made to individual cases in order to argue that the coroner in question was at fault. For example, there is one coroner in the north-east who was appallingly slow in dealing with inquests.