Coroners: Suicide
(asked on 7th September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government plans to make changes to rules requiring coroners recording a suicide to meet the same criminal standard of proof as unlawful killing rather than the civil standard.
This question was answered on 22nd December 2016
The Government has no current plans to amend the law on the burden of proof for returning a conclusion of suicide at an inquest but it will keep the matter under review.