Coroner’s Districts
Many thanks to Stephen Gradwick for passing me the results of his request to the Home Office for an electronic list of coroners’ contact details.
The Home Office hasn’t bothered to make this information public on its own coroners website, so I am publishing it here. You can download the list in word document (123 kb).
Coroners remain largely unaccountable and readers of Your Right to Know, will be aware that I battled in vain even to get such minimal information as the identity and contact details of coroners prior to implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. The coronial system needs a major overhaul, but at least we now know who these public servants are.
August 13th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
I have just found you while trawling through “the system” and find your website utterly fascinating.
My husband Edgar Lewy was Hon Complaints secretary of London Freelance NUJ for many years, but that was ages ago.
For long and complex reasons I have a very powerful and continuing interest in the ways of Coroners should you want to know a bit more I will be glad to provide.
In the meantime thanks tremendously for the list of Coroners’ names and addresses, Mine is the appendix to the Treasure Act god knows
how long ago - well and truly out of date. If you can pass on my gratitude to Stephen Gradwick so much the better.
Incidentally if you try to get any information out of anyone about Coroners per se, they decline because “Coroners is not a Public Authority”. But with the exceptin of the bloke who is “appointed by the Lord Chancellor” everything else down to the last paperclip
is paid for by a Public Authority and coroners facilities are listed under the relevant Greater London Borough in the phone directory. What’s that thing about “if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck” etc. If the coroner (etc….)
I did ask that particular coroner’s officer whether coroners were omitted from the Schedule by accident, or deliberately excluded. (Either way it could/should be remedied) but of course that coroner’s officer did not deign to respond, I am after all only a p.b.c. (poor bloody civilian) and an elderly widow….
Thanks for all your efforts which as you can see I greatly
appreciate.
Yours sincerely
Lilly L
(Mrs L H Lewy)
September 29th, 2005 at 11:45 am
Hi,
I’ve taken the coronors data and applied it to a google map of the Uk, which can be found here:
http://www.londoncrime.org/coronors/
Bit of a hefty cut and paste exercise, so if anyone finds any errors then please shout
Cheers
Mike
August 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
If you go to the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales website: http://www.coronersociety.org.uk you will find at the bottom of the homepage, a search tool which will provide you with the contact details of not only the Coroners, but also the Deputy Coroners and Assistant Deputy Coroners for each jurisdiction.
Yes I am in there!
Not quite as cloak and dagger as some might allege - do not let one response prejudice you against us all.