Glad to see some common sense being applied here. The primary duty of a coroner in the UK is to find out what happened and decide on the cause of death. They have a secondary duty to make recommendations to prevent future deaths, so it is easy to see why a coroner would ask for this information. However, CVRs were introduced into aviation under a great deal of suspicion and their use has become accepted because we all now understand and believe in their ability to prevent accidents and the anonymity of the information they capture. Routinely releasing CVR information to legal entities would likely result in a lot of unexplained technical problems with them!