The Coronial Services of New Zealand has produced a brochure to help you understand the processes involved when a death is referred to a Coroner. This can be viewed below through the dropdown list, or it can be downloaded from this Website by clicking on one of the PDF links:

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The First 24 hours
• People Involved
• Interests of the Family
• The Process
• Why Police become involved in a death
• Role of the Coroner
• Post-mortem
• Inquiry
• Inquest
• Suicide
• Practical Issues

• English [PDF 815KB]
• Maori [PDF 815KB] [HTML]
• Samoan [PDF 799KB] [HTML]

The first 48 hours - what to expect after a sudden death 

• English [PDF 819KB] [HTML]
• Maori [PDF 4,211KB] [HTML]
• Chinese [PDF 4,671KB]
• Khmer [PDF 4,521KB]
• Korean [PDF 4,410KB]
• Samoan [PDF 4,246KB] [HTML]
• Somali [PDF 4,123KB] [HTML]
• Tongan [PDF 4,073KB] [HTML]

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