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Coroner's Court of New South Wales

The office of coroner in New South Wales derives from the legal framework inherited from the historical origins of the state and, ultimately, the United Kingdom.


190th Fighter Squadron

On March 16, 2007, the inquest coroner, Andrew Walker, returned a narrative verdict, stating that the killing of L/CoH Hull was "unlawful".

Alan Dickie

Dickie joined the Metropolitan Police and later worked in the Coroner's Office at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent.

Alcatraz Morgue

During Alcatraz's use as a Federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963, deceased inmates were taken to the San Francisco County Coroner on the mainland.

Alexander S. Wiener

Since the 1930s he co-operated with the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City.

Arthur Wishart

In 1967, Wishart fired Morton Shulman from his position as Chief Coroner of Metropolitan Toronto as a result of Shulman's criticisms of the government's failure to follow various recommendations made in coroner's inquiries.

Battle of Ballantyne Pier

Strike supporters set up a makeshift hospital at the Ukrainian Hall, and the police did the same for their wounded at the Coroner's Court on Cordova Street.

Blood Stain Child

In September the band announced new members Sophia (from Greece) on vocals and Gami (ex.Youthquake) on drums, signing a contract with Italian record label Coroner Records and Japanese record label Pony Canyon.

Charles James Campbell

He was named a justice of the peace for Cape Breton County in 1851 and county coroner in 1857.

Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand

After the release of a damning coroner's report into Air Adventure's Piper Navajo crash near Christchurch International Airport on June 6, 2003, killing the pilot Michael Bannerman and seven Crop and Food Research staff, the Civil Aviation Authority underwent an urgent review by the office of the former Minister of Transport, Annette King, and resulted in the resignation of director John Jones.

Cobra Video

According to the Luzerne County coroner investigating the death, Kocis was stabbed twenty eight times and his throat was cut before his body was left in his house, which was set on fire after Kocis died.

Contaminated currency

In a study reported in Forensic Science International, A.J. Jenkins, at the Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner (Cleveland, OH), the author reports the analysis of ten randomly collected one-dollar bills from five cities, and tested for cocaine, heroin, 6-acetylmorphine (also called "6-AM"), morphine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP).

Coroner's Pidgin

Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Magersfontein Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman.

Da Vinci's City Hall

Da Vinci is based on the real-life experiences of Larry Campbell, the former chief coroner of Vancouver who was elected that city's mayor in 2002.

Death of Beto Laudisio

Coroner Mary Jerram condemned the police actions, describing them as "thuggish" and involving excessive force, and recommended that five of the officers involved should face disciplinary actions.

Death of Gareth Williams

The coroner was highly critical of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), who failed to tell the senior investigating officer before the inquest began of the existence of nine memory sticks and other property in Williams's SIS office.

Vincent Williams from the Metropolitan Police informed the Westminster Coroner's Court that experts were agreed that it was impossible for Gareth Williams to have locked himself in.

Dr. G: Medical Examiner

Dr. G, or Dr. Jan Garavaglia, is the Chief Medical Examiner with Florida's District Nine Medical Examiner's office in Orlando, Florida.

Earlean Collins

After narrowly prevailing in the Democratic primary against Kane County Coroner Mary Lou Kearns, she was defeated in the general election by Republican Loleta Didrickson.

Edward Badham

Badham was first called to testify at the Inquest of Annie Chapman on 13 September 1888, where he was questioned by Coroner Wynne Edwin Baxter about his involvement in the transporting of her body from Hanbury Street to the mortuary.

Elizabeth Cosson

On 15 May 2006, following a meeting with the Victorian Coroner, she left a CD-ROM containing a draft copy of her confidential report in a public computer in the Qantas Club lounge of Melbourne Airport.

Francis John Nugan

On 25 January 1980 Nugan was found dead in his car on an isolated dirt track near Bowenfels, New South Wales with a gunshot wound to the head, which the coroner concluded was self-inflicted.

Gillingham bus disaster

An inquest was held on 14 December 1951 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Gillingham, where many of the injured were being treated, before the North-East Kent Coroner.

Heather Hallett

Hallett was chosen in 2009 to act as coroner in the inquest of the 52 fatal victims of the 7/7 bombings; hearings began in October 2010.

Inquest

The The Good Wife season 4 episode "Invitation to an Inquest" revolved around a coroner's inquest into the death of a judge.

Jimmy McGovern's drama Accused features an episode in which an inquest is opened and ajourned by a coroner into a workplace death.

Jessica Michalik

The Coroner's Court of New South Wales findings into her death criticized the crowd control measures in use at the time, and also criticized Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst for "alarming and inflammatory" comments during the rescue effort.

Laurence Hynes Halloran

In 1828 Darling for the sake of his children gave him the office of coroner but he did not keep the position long, and in the same year was in trouble with Archdeacon Scott, who objected to Halloran's prefacing some public lectures he was giving with part of the Anglican church service.

Mardy Colliery

After the Coroner's Inquest, held at the Maerdy Hotel on 12–18 January 1886, a barrister, A. G. C. Liddell, was appointed to submit a report to the Mines Inspector, and hence to the Minister and both houses of Parliament.

Michael Baze

On June 3, 2011, deputy Jefferson County coroner Jim Wesley reported that Michael Baze died of an accidental overdose.

Minden Hills

The Minden Hills Cultural Centre is home to the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, named after Dr. Agnes Jamieson, the first female coroner in Ontario, which houses the largest known collection of André Lapine's work.

Peter Dupas

An inquest into Halvagis's death before coroner Graeme Johnstone heard circumstantial evidence in the case against Dupas in relation to the murder;

Punky Brüster – Cooked on Phonics

Cooked on Phonics tells the story of a fictitious death metal band from south-central Poland called Cryptic Coroner that sells out their metal look and sound to become a commercial punk rock band called Punky Brüster (the band's name is a pun on the 80's U.S. television series Punky Brewster).

Ron Smalstig

Among other television appearances, he was featured in several episodes of the TV show North Mission Road, which features "unique and compelling" cases of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Department.

State Coroner

Coroner an officer of law responsible for investigating deaths

The Coroner's Toolkit

The Coroner's Toolkit (or TCT) is a suite of computer security programs by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema.

Theodore Curphey

Theodore Joscelyn Curphey (born October 25, 1897, died November 27, 1986, Pasadena, California) was an American coroner who was the chief coroner for Los Angeles and Nassau Counties.

Vermilion County, Illinois, Elections, 2008

On that date, registered voters in Vermilion County were eligible to elect officeholders in five countywide offices: the office of Auditor, Circuit Clerk, Coroner, Recorder, and State's Attorney.

Vincent Wing

The Olympia Domata for 1670 was edited by his elder son, Vincent Wing; and the numbers for 1704 to 1727 by his nephew, John Wing of Pickworth, Rutland, coroner of the county, who published in 1693 Heptarchia Mathematica, and in 1699 an enlarged version of his uncle's Art of Surveying, supplemented by Scientia Stellarum, Calculation of the Planets' Places, etc.

Whincup

The Cumberland Quarter Sessions (Coroner's Inquests) in 1762 looked into the death of Elizabeth Benson, aged 30, who died walking from Whincop in Birker to Boot in Eskdale, when she tried to ford Birker Beck at the site of a footbridge which had been destroyed by earlier floods, and was swept into the River Esk and drowned.

Who Is Cletis Tout?

With Finch's help, Micah manages to break out, and the two get new identities for themselves, courtesy of a coroner (Billy Connolly) who owes Finch a favor.

Will County, Illinois

The County Executive, County Clerk, Coroner, Auditor, Treasurer, Recorder of Deeds, State's Attorney and Sheriff are all elected in a countywide vote.

William J. Biggy

During the San Francisco graft prosecutions, Biggy was appointed Elisor by the court to hold Abraham Ruef in custody, which lasted more than a year, first in the temporary "little" Saint Francis Hotel and later in a house at 2849 Fillmore Street, after the sheriff and the coroner were disqualified.


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