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Coroners Act 2006

Inquiries into causes and circumstances of deaths - Inquests

83: Specialist advisers to sit with and help coroners

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"Coroners can get help from specialist advisers during an inquest"

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You can get help from a specialist adviser when a coroner is holding an inquest. The chief coroner can appoint this adviser if a coroner recommends it and they think it is a good idea. The coroner must consider any relevant practice notes issued under section 132 before making this recommendation. You might wonder what the specialist adviser does. They give advice to the coroner on certain questions and in the way the coroner wants. The coroner decides how much importance to give to this advice. The specialist adviser's job ends when the coroner finishes and signs a report about the death. The coroner is in charge of deciding what the adviser's advice is worth.

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Part 3Inquiries into causes and circumstances of deaths
Inquests

83Specialist advisers to sit with and help coroners

  1. If satisfied that it is desirable to do so, the chief coroner may, on the recommendation of a coroner, appoint a cultural, legal, medical, or other specialist adviser to sit with and help the coroner at an inquest by giving advice.

  2. The coroner's recommendation that a specialist adviser be appointed must be made after having regard to any relevant practice notes issued under section 132 by the chief coroner.

  3. The specialist adviser must give the advice—

  4. on any questions referred to the specialist adviser; and
    1. in any manner the coroner may direct.

      1. The appointment of a specialist adviser ends when the coroner conducting the inquiry concerned completes and signs a certificate of findings in relation to the death concerned.

      2. Advice given by a specialist adviser may be given any weight the coroner thinks fit.

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