Kasperowicz, Regina (on the Application of) v HM Coroner for Plymouth: CA 10 Jan 2005

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:

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Statutes:

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 22(1)

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Coroners

Updated: 08 July 2022; Ref: scu.245560