CORONERS' INQUESTS
$ KNQUIUY INTO PRACTICE AND LAW (Received March 1, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, February 28. In the House of Commons, Sir John Gihnour (Home Secretary) announced the appointment of a committee under the chairmanship of Lord Wright, to enquire into desirable and practicable changes in the law and practice regarding coroners' inquests. Mrs Mavis Tate askqd whether steps could be taken to prevent the publication of details of the last letters of suicide cases, - except where the coroner thought it would be in Vae public interest.
Sir John said this could be left to the committee. The "Lancet" comments on the action of the coroner in publicly reading the letters left by the Du Bois sisters. While agreeing that the letters were material evidence, it says that the coroner might have given them to the jury privately, or spared the feelings of the living by a more judicious selection of the passages read to the public.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21412, 2 March 1935, Page 13
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156CORONERS' INQUESTS Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21412, 2 March 1935, Page 13
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