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What is a coroner?

What is a coroner? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, cases of treasure trove, and debris from shipwrecks.
  2. (Canada, US) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
  3. The administrative head of a sheading.
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The coroner refused to leave the issue of neglect to the jury and the Court of Appeal held that he was right not to do so.
The coroner returned a suicide verdict, saying that Mr Kapustynski had clearly intended to kill himself.
There has been a damning indictment of living conditions at a remote Aboriginal community by the West Australian coroner.
The coroner recorded verdicts that the boys were unlawfully killed and their father took his own life.
You rightly said that the royal coroner announced earlier this year that there would be an inquest.
The coroner said he was not proposing to set out a list of recommendations to hospitals.

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