§ 50. Mr. K. Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to require coroners to utilise the services of practising qualified pathologists for all coroners' post mortem examinations.
§ Mr. BrookeThe Coroners' Rules 1953 require a coroner in deciding who should conduct a post-mortem examination to have regard to the desirability of the examination being made by a pathologist with suitable qualifications and experience and having access to laboratory facilities. I am satisfied that this recommendation is generally followed. Exceptionally, circumstances may arise in which a suitably qualified pathologist is not readily available, and that being so I do not think that it would be right to take away the coroner's discretion to appoint some other duly qualified medical practitioner.