Death Investigation and the Coroner's Inquest

Ian Freckelton is a Melbourne barrister in full-time practice, specialising in criminal, administrative, and personal injury law. He has appeared in many of Australia's best known coroners' inquests and appeals from such inquests. He has been a member of a number of tribunals and holds honorary professorial appointments in law, forensic medicine, forensic psychology and social sciences at Monash, La Trobe and Deakin universities and at AUT. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. He is an editorial board member of Health Law in Canada and is the author of books on expert evidence, health law, causation in law and medicine, criminal law, criminal injuries compensation and tribunal practice. David Ranson is an anatomical and forensic pathologist as well as being legally qualified. He is the Deputy Director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and heads its specialist death investigation unit. He is the Director of the National Coroners Information System and has worked as a forensic physician and pathologist in the UK. He is an honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine and holds academic positions in law and health sciences at Monash University and in the Dental School at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in forensic medicine and medical law and has participated in the international investigation of mass fatalities.