Members Section

Welcome to the Members' Area of the Coroner's Officers Association.

Non-members of the COA visiting the website can view a list of
Offices of Coroner's Officers by clicking here.


COA POSTAL ADDRESS
The address for all correspondence to the COA is: PO Box 558, Macclesfield, SK10 9GA 

CORONER'S DIVISION MoJ POSTAL ADDRESS
The current address for the Coroner's Division of the MoJ is:
Coroners Division, 2nd Floor, 102 Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ 

Coroners' Courts Support Service 
 

The Coroners’ Courts Support Service is a Registered Charity whose volunteers give emotional and practical support to families and other witnesses attending Inquests at, Barnet, Croydon, Fulham, St Pancras, Southwark, Walthamstow and Westminster. The Service is now open in Amersham and Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, Chelmsford in Essex, Hatfield in Hertfordshire, Woking in Surrey and Windsor in Berkshire.

The Coroners' Courts Support Service is an independent organisation supported by The Ministry of Justice, the Wates Foundation, the Drapers' Consolidated Charity, private donations and grants. In London we work in partnership with the Metropolitan Police.

To download their brochure click here
To download their most recent newsletter (made available February 2010) visit: www.coronerscourtssupportservice.org.uk

STATISTICS ON DEATHS REPORTED TO CORONERS

Please visit the MoJ website http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/coronersannual.htm 

for statistics of coroners' work, including deaths reported, post-mortems, and inquests (including those for treasure and treasure trove). These figures are used to monitor coroners' workload, throughput of cases, and percentages of post-mortems and inquests.

HEALTH ISSUES

 Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Certification of Death

The Department of Health has been developing a new guidance document on a Code of Practice for the diagnosis and certification of death. This has been posted on the Coroner's Society website and the Royal College of Anaesthetists website. Click on the title above to access this document.