15 Feb 1990
RE MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION LTD.
- Citation
- RE MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION LTD.
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1950/1989
The coroner's statutory jurisdiction under s.6 does not extend to a wide-ranging, microscopic evaluation of individual professional conduct amounting to the same exercise as a civil liability trial; a 'lack of care' verdict is confined to conduct causing or contributing to the physical condition leading to death (judged by lay standards), and although the coroner misdirected himself in this inquest in treating medical conduct as effectively determinative of liability, the court refused the declaratory relief as academic while giving guidance on proper limits and procedure.