Fatal Accident & Coroners
Coroners are a special type of Judge that head the investigation into a death. For more information on Coroner’s role, powers and procedures please see: Fatal Accident & Death Coroner’s Court.
Coroner’s Court News
The Coroner’s pay scales have recently been updated. Accross England & Wales, there has been a wide pay variation.
This pay variation is to be found in the following report: annual coroner’s pay report to lord chancellor Michael Gove,
In this review, His Honour Judge Peter Thornton QC said such a lack of consistency is ‘not satisfactory’. The survey conducted by the chief coroner, with the assistance of the Ministry of Justice, showed that salaries of full-time senior coroners varied by up to £70,000 per year. The highest-paid senior coroner is part time with a jurisdiction of less than 2,000 reported deaths a year.
For more information on the pay scales of Coroner’s please visit National Pay Scale – Coroner’s Report
