Clause 1
10:30 am
Jeremy Wright (Whip, Whips; Rugby and Kenilworth, Conservative)
Does my hon. Friend agree that the difficulty with subsection (4) is that paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) are conjunctive? They relate to a senior coroner who has reason to believe that, first, a death has occurred in or near their jurisdiction; secondly, that the circumstances of that death are such that there should be an investigation; and thirdly, there is a duty to conduct an investigation. Therefore, a death that occurs abroad would almost certainly not be covered by that catch-all in paragraph (b).