Coroners' recommendations and the promise of saved lives / Jennifer Moore.

Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

87151

Coroners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New Zealand.

Coroners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- English speaking countries.

Coroners -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Public health.

1. Learning From Death

2. Coronial Jurisdictions

3. Coroners' Recommendations

4. Do Coroners' Recommendations "Disappear Into A Black Hole?"

5. The Promise Of Saved Lives: Coroners' Preventive Function 6. Mandatory Responses To Coroners' Recommendations

7. Dying For Change

Index.

"This is the first empirical law book to investigate coroners' recommendations, and the extent of their impact and implementation. Based on an extensive study, the book analyses over 2000 New Zealand Coroners' recommendations and includes more than 100 interviews and over 40 surveys, as well as Coroner's Court findings and litigation from Canada, England, Ireland, Australia and Scotland. This timely book is an overdue investigation of the highly debated questions: do coroners' recommendations save lives and how often are they implemented? In addition to coroners, lawyers, health practitioners, families, organisations and policy makers, researchers from Law, Medicine and the Social Sciences will find this pioneering volume an important and illuminating resource." -- Publisher's website.

9781784711559

xxiv, 297 p. ; 24 cm