Autopsies,Scans and Cultural Exceptionalism

See, eg, Corrective Services Act 2006 (Qld) s 39 and Misuse of Drugs Act 2001 (Tas) s 30; Hamilton Andrew , ‘Australian border force cuts through the fence of law and due process’ (2015) 25(17) Eureka Street 41; and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 (Cth).

Schloendorff v Society of New York Hospital, 211 NY 125, 105 NE 92 (1914).

Jenkins Tiffany , Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority (Routledge, 2010); and MacDonald Helen , Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy (Melbourne University Press, 2010). See also Vines Prue , ‘Consequences of Intestacy for Indigenous People in Australia: The Passing of Property and Burial Rights’ (2004) 8(4) Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 1.

McFarlane Olivia Vines Prue , ‘Investigating to Save Lives: Coroners and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’ (2000) 4(27) Indigenous Law Bulletin 8.

Carpenter Belinda Tait Gordon , ‘The Autopsy Imperative: Medicine, Law, and the Coronial Investigation’ (2010) 31 (3) Journal of Medical Humanities 205. See also Vines Prue , ‘The Sacred and the Profane: Property Concepts in Post-mortem Examinations’ (2007) 29(2) Sydney Law Review 235, 252; and Dillon Hugh Hadley Marie , The Australasian Coroner's Manual (Federation Press, 2015).

Barnes Michael Carpenter Belinda , ‘Reliance on internal autopsies in coronial investigations: A review of the issues’ (2011) 19(1) Journal of Law and Medicine 88.

Coroners Act 1997 (ACT) s 21; Coroners Act 2009 (NSW) s 89; Coroners Act 1993 (NT) s 20; Coroners Act 2003 (Qld) s 13; Coroners Act 2003 (SA) s 22; Coroners Act 1995 (Tas) s 36; Coroners Act 2008 (Vic) s 25; Coroners Act 1996 (WA) s 34.

Coroners Act 1997 (ACT) ss 20, 28; Coroners Act 2009 (NSW) ss 89, 96; Coroners Act (NT) s 23; Coroners Act 2003 (Qld) s 19; Coroners Act 1995 (Tas) s 38; Coroners Act 2008 (Vic) ss 8, 79; Coroners Act 1996 (WA) s 37.

Lynch Matthew Woodford Noel , ‘The role of post-mortem imaging in preliminary examinations under the Coroners Act 2008 (Vic): A forensic pathologist's perspective’ (2014) 21(4) Journal of Law and Medicine 774.

Rosner Fred , ‘Autopsy in Jewish Law and the Israeli Autopsy Controversy’ (1971) 11(4) Tradition 43.

See also R v Westminster City Coroner, ex Parte Rainer (1968) QBD 112; SJ 882 and Callanan v Geraghty [2007] IEHC 419.

Coroners & Justice Act 2009 (UK) s 1(2).

Evans v Northern Territory Coroner [2011] NTSC 100.

Ibid 100 [5]

Re Death of Simon Unchango (Jnr); ex parte Simon Unchango (Snr) (1997) 95 A Crim R 65.

Wuridjal v Northern Territory Coroner [2001] NTSC 99.

Evans v Northern Territory Coroner [2011] NTSC 100 [26].

Raymond-Hewitt v Northern Territory Coroner [2011] NTSC 94.

Alan James Green v Graeme Douglas Johnstone [1995] VSC 34; [1995] 2 VR 176.

Raymond-Hewitt v Northern Territory Coroner [2011] NTSC 94.

See, eg, Morris v Hand (Unreported, NSWSC, 1997) <http://www.judcom.nsw.gov.au/publications/benchbks/local/coronial_matters.html#p50-080>.

Magdziarz v Heffey [1995] VSC 201. See also: Pope & Pope v State Coroner [1998] SASC 6526.

Magdziarz v Heffey [1995] VSC 201 [18].

Joe Traynor v Ors (Unreported, Supreme Court of Victoria, 2012).

A useful discussion of distress and its potential impact is provided in Carpenter Belinda Tait Gordon Quadrelli Carol , ‘The Body in Grief: Death Investigations, Objections to Autopsy, and the Religious and Cultural “Other”’ (2014) 5 Religions 165; and in Carpenter , ‘Communicating with the coroner: How religion, culture, and family concerns may influence autopsy decision making’ (2011) 35(4) Death Studies 316.

Krantz v Hand [1999] NSWSC 432.

Ibid 432 [4].

Ibid 432 [49].

Ibid 432 [50].