Coroners Act 2006

The Coroners Act 2006 is an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand which completely reformed the Coronal services and introduced the office of Chief Coroner and clarified matters related the working conditions of coroners and their renumeration.

Coroners inquests in New Zealand are inquisitorial rather than adversarial; they are fact-finding exercises rather than methods of apportioning guilt.[1]

The Act was prompted by a 2000 New Zealand Law Commission report which recommended a number of changes.

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References

  1. ↑ MacLean, Neil (2012). "An Inquisitorial Cuckoo in an Adversarial Nest: Five Years of Coronial Reform in New Zealand". Hearsay. Retrieved 2013-09-23.

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