Coroners-Court-Annual-Report-2023-WEB.pdf [pdf, 977 KB]
...the Coroners Act, each for a term of five years. Associate coroners have all the powers of a coroner, with the exception of presiding over inquests. The primary role of associate coroners is to act as the duty coroner in relation to less complex matters, freeing up permanent coroners to deal with more complex matters. Associate coroners also assume responsibility for dealing with non-complex deaths that do not require an inquiry and conducting inquiries into less complex deaths and res...