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A Coroners' Working Party meeting was held. The minutes of the meeting recorded that Dr Burton from the Coroners' Society considered that post-mortem examinations should not normally be carried out on AIDS victims.

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A Coroners' Working Party meeting was held. The minutes of the meeting recorded the agreement "that haemophiliacs were a sensitive category" and concern that "the children of the deceased would be particularly affected."

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A Coroners' Working Party memorandum noted that the General Register Office were "not prepared to adopt a confidential box procedure" but may consider "issuing Registrars with guidance on how to deal with cases of haemophiliacs with AIDS and the Working Party will wish to consider whether this should be pursued."

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The Home Office sought the General Register Office's views on whether a new confidential box should be added to death certificates to allow doctors to tick whether a death was related to AIDS.

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The Home Office suggested to David Watters that a confidential box allowing doctors to tick whether a death was related to AIDS would provide a compromise between family privacy and investigation.

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The deputy medical referee at the City of Wakefield told the Home Office that "Our Health and Local Authorities are drawing up policies for AIDS, which will cover, inter alia, advice on disposal of the dead and would discourage post mortems except at a Coroner's request."

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In an EAGA meeting, Sir Donald Acheson reported that enquiries had been made about the legality of a 'Box B'. The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys responded that "Box B" was designed to be used when results were due to come through later and give more information about the cause of death.

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In a letter to Dr Rizza, Nicholas Gardiner took the view that he was required to undertake an inquest in all cases of deaths from infected blood because they were "unnatural" deaths.

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Caroline Flint wrote to Arthur Hooper to confirm that a vCJD expert group had been set up, as it was it important that patients be given choice when they have been informed they are at risk.

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Cardiologist Mark Petrie noted in an internal email during the Penrose Inquiry that very little guidance was given to Doctors on how to fill in death certificates.

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The Penrose Inquiry investigated into the deaths of Eileen O'Hara and the Reverend David Black, a fatal accident which had been sought in a previous judicial review.

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R v HM Coroner for the Western District of Somerset ex parte Middleton considered the inquest investigation required when Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to life) is engaged.

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In the Third Report of the Shipman Inquiry, Dame Janet Smith noted that the system of death certification which had operated during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s was not working well and was in need of radical reform.

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In the Third Report of the Shipman Inquiry, Dame Janet Smith noted that an inquest should solely focus on answering who the deceased was; how, when and where the deceased came by his death; and the particulars for the time being required by the Registration Act to be registered concerning the death.

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In the Third Report of the Shipman Inquiry, Dame Janet Smith considered that the death certification process should include a brief summary of the deceased's recent medical history and the chain of events leading to death. The forms she proposed for use contained a box in which the doctor could express an opinion as to the cause of death.

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In the Review of Fatal Accident Inquiry Legislation 2009, it was found that the sheriff courts in Scotland were "intimidating" and tended "to have an adversarial atmosphere."

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NHS England and NHS Wales began to implement medical examiner systems whereby all deaths would be independently scrutinised by medical examiners if they are not referred to the coroner.

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A Fundamental Review of Death Certification and Investigation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland took place in the wake of the Shipman scandal, the deaths caused by Beverley Allitt, and the deaths of "heart babies" at Bristol Royal Infirmary. It considered death certification and the coroner's jurisdiction, identified weaknesses in the death certification process, and made recommendations.

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The Select Committee on Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform reported that a proposal for civil registration reform was not an appropriate subject for a regulatory reform order.

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The Coroners (Amendment) Rules 1980 first provided Coroners with the power to report matters to a person or authority who is able to take action to prevent the recurrence of similar fatalities.

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