Renewed application for leave to challenge to an order for a post-mortem examination. The deceased had died aged 88.
Held: No doctor had recently attended the deceased, and a post mortem was required at law. Leave was refused. It was for the coroner to address as best he could within the law the humanitarian concerns of the family.
Citations:
[2005] EWCA Civ 44
Links:
Statutes:
Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 22(1)
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Coroners
Updated: 08 July 2022; Ref: scu.245560