Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Worth summarising the range of verdicts open to a coroner:
accident
industrial disease
natural causes
open verdict
suicide
unlawful killing
As I understand the instruction given to me when I was a juror in a coroner's court the only decisions that can be made are :
Who died
Where they died and
How
BUT, the coroner can then construct a narrative based on the evidence.
The coroner decides who to call to give evidence and the jury can ask questions of the witnesses, the answers form part of the evidence. Cue the coroner leading the jury.