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Death Investigation and the Coroner's Inquest is a major text on coroners' law, medicine and practice. It is the first such work with international, cross-disciplinary, policy, historical and literary perspectives. The book focuses on law and practice in Australia and New Zealand but draws upon law, practice and scholarly writing from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States, as well as illustrative cases and experience from the Asia-Pacific region. The book bridges the divide between traditional legal texts dealing with inquests and with appears from coroners' decisions, and those forensic medical and scientific texts dealing with pathology, autopsy practice and other technical aspects of death investigation. Death Investigation and the Coroner's Inquest addresses homicides, fatalities in workplaces, hospitals and prisons, and deaths from mass disasters and genocidal massacres. It analyses the contemporary role of the coroner and how the institution of coronership is likely to evolve in the post-Shipman era. It will be useful to coroners, lawyers, medical practitioners, police officers and others interested in death investigation and the operation and parameters of coroners' inquests.

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Ian Freckelton is a Melbourne barrister in full-time practice, specialising in criminal, administrative, and personal injury law. He has appeared in many of Australia's best known coroners' inquests and appeals from such inquests. He has been a member of a number of tribunals and holds honorary professorial appointments in law, forensic medicine, forensic psychology and social sciences at Monash, La Trobe and Deakin universities and at AUT. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. He is an editorial board member of Health Law in Canada and is the author of books on expert evidence, health law, causation in law and medicine, criminal law, criminal injuries compensation and tribunal practice. David Ranson is an anatomical and forensic pathologist as well as being legally qualified. He is the Deputy Director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and heads its specialist death investigation unit. He is the Director of the National Coroners Information System and has worked as a forensic physician and pathologist in the UK. He is an honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine and holds academic positions in law and health sciences at Monash University and in the Dental School at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in forensic medicine and medical law and has participated in the international investigation of mass fatalities.

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