The Coroners (Inquests) Rules 2013

Disclosure of documents at the request of an interested person

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13.—(1) Subject to rule 15, where an interested person asks for disclosure of a document held by the coroner, the coroner must provide that document or a copy of that document, or make the document available for inspection by that person as soon as is reasonably practicable.

(2) Documents to which this rule applies include—

(a)any post-mortem examination report;

(b)any other report that has been provided to the coroner during the course of the investigation;

(c)where available, the recording of any inquest hearing held in public, but not in relation to any part of the hearing from which the public was excluded under rule 11(4) or (5);

(d)any other document which the coroner considers relevant to the inquest.