Originally Posted by
_Agrajag_
Seems a curiously non-standard process to me. I'd always assumed that the way that Coroner's worked was the same everywhere, I had no idea there was so much apparent variation. Then again I've only ever been to one inquest, and only then because I had a personal interest in the accident, having seen it happen and been one of the first on scene. I, wrongly it seems, assumed they all worked in the same way, to the same standards and procedures.
It isn't "non-standard", think of it as a flexible process. Coroners cover everything from an elderly person dying after a fall, the Shoreham case discussed here, through to the really big ones - Hillsborough, Lockerbie etc. All done within the same standards and procedures, and it works very well.