Talk:Inquests in England and Wales

Incorrect information

• The information included in this article is incorrect - the legal purpose of an inquest under the British system is to answer an specific set of 4 questions using an inquisitorial approach. I will add what I can but would be grateful if a professional could help out! Totallycrazyman 17:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

What I'm inclined to do here is to reduce this article to the bare "comparative law" minimum (there's enough in EB to do this confidently). A subsequent article Inquest (England and Wales) can then be built and linked. I am going to delete a lot of content but I will verify it and bring it back in the E&W article soon.

No, changed mind already. I am going to move this to an E&W article, leaving templates in place, then revise the Inquest article, then go back and verify/ update the E&W article.Cutler 22:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Death by Misadventure

Death_by_misadventure rather confusingly redirects to the Verdict section here, where the term is used, buy not described or explained. The other Verdicts listed here point to pages explaining them. Perhapse we can do something similar, rather than present a dead end. I notice that the page Misadventure usefully redirects to Accident.75.68.16.228 (talk) 11:50, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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Verdicts and burdens of proof

1) Coroners return conclusions, not verdicts, although everyone except the legal profession uses the term verdicts.

2) There was a case in 2018 which changed the burden of proof needed to return a conclusion of unlawful killing or suicide from "beyond all reasonable doubt" to "balance of probabilities". R (on the application of Thomas Maughan) v Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2018] EWHC 1955 (Admin) DanBCDanBC (talk) 02:05, 10 March 2019 (UTC)