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The Coroner is the Government’s officiant at the Courts of Inquest and are responsible in law for running an inquest or Post Mortem without Inquest and reporting the cause of death for registration purposes.
Often they are a barrister, solicitor or medical practitioner by training.
Deaths are usually referred to them by the Register Office or the police or the attending doctor due normally because the death is unexpected, unexplained or involves a crime. See Inquest.
The Coroner will issue an interim Certificate of Cause of Death before the Inquest process completes, so that the Administration of the Estate can continue, although it is advisable, in certain circumstances (where the deceased died at the hands of a potential Beneficiary) to hold off completion until after the Inquest is heard.
The Coroner will release the body of the deceased for burial or cremation when satified as the the cause of death.