Definicija: senior medical doctors who are contracted for a number of sessions a week to undertake medical examiner duties, outside of their usual clinical duties. They are trained in the legal and clinical elements of death certification processes

Definicija: public official (usually a lawyer) responsible for the investigation of violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths

Definicija: takes place when the death was unexplained or occured in suspicious circumstances, due to an industrial injury or disease, an accident, violence, in police custody, in prison, during an operation… and is usually reported to the Coroner by the police, or by a doctor called to the death