Josephine Conway v Mary Jerram, Magistrate and NSW State Coroner & Anor [2010] NSWSC 371

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Josephine Conway v Mary Jerram, Magistrate and NSW State Coroner & Anor [2010] NSWSC 371 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.

HEARING DATE(S) : 14/04/10, 15/04/10

JUDGMENT DATE : 3 May 2010

JUDGMENT OF : Barr AJ at 1

DECISION : Summons dismissed.

CATCHWORDS : Coroner - Inquest into death - whether inquest should be ordered. - Coroner - inquest - manner and cause of death - scope of. - Coroner - inquest into death. - limits of jurisdiction - remoteness. - Coroner - manner and cause of death - proximate cause - words and phrases - manner and cause of death.

Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 Coroners Act 1980 (NSW) Coroners Act 2009 (NSW) Coroners Act 1958 (Qld) LEGISLATION CITED : Coroners Act 2003 (QLD) Coroners Act 1985 (VIC) Coroners Act 1996 (WA) Coroners Act 1988 (UK) Human Rights Act 1988 (UK)

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Atkinson v Morrow [2005] QSC 92 Atkinson v Morrow [2006] 1 Qd R 397 Chiotelis v Coate [2009] VSC 256 Clancy v West (1996) 2 VR 647 at 654 Harmsworth v State Coroner [1989] VR 989 Herron v Attorney General for New South Wales (1987) 8 NSWLR 601 Knight v FP Special Assets Limited (1992) 174 CLR 178 CASES CITED : Maksimovic v Walsh [1983] 2 NSWLR 656 Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Limited (1986) 162 CLR 24 Re State Coroner; Ex parte Minister for Health [2009] WASCA 165 Regina (Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner [2004] 2 AC 182 Regina (Sacker) v West Yorkshire Coroner [2004] UKHL 11 Rouf v Johnson [1999]VSC 396 R v Doogan; Ex parte Lucas-Smith [2005] ACTSC 74 R v H M Coroner for North Humberside and Scunthorpe, Ex parte Jamieson [1995] QB 1 X v Deputy State Coroner of New South Wales (2001) 51 NSWLR 312