Remarks on the proposals for amendment of the law of coroners' inquests / by E.L. Hussey.

  • Hussey, E. L. (Edward Law)
Date:
1884
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Credit: Remarks on the proposals for amendment of the law of coroners' inquests / by E.L. Hussey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Practitioner. . . . Under the Irish Coroners Act of 1881, it is required that every Coroner in Ireland shall be a Medical Practitioner, a Barrister or So- licitor, or a Justice of the Peace. It would be well, perhaps, if the same control over the appointment of a Deputy by the Coroner of a Borough was given to the Lord Chancellor; and also that the Coroner of a Borough should have as full power of acting by Deputy as the Coroner for a County has. It was proposed by a Committee of the House of Commons that the number of Jurors to agree in a Verdict should be nine. In some of the Colonies, seven is the number required. In the United States of America, six is sufficient. . . . In actions tried in the County Courts, five is the number required for a Jury: in some Manor Courts even less. In the High Court of Justice, the Judges have adopted what has always been the practise in Chancery, that of hearing and determining causes without a Jury. It follows, of course, that if less than twelve are required to find a verdict, the Inquisition can not be taken as a Bill of