1.   In such a case a coroner has a mandatory obligation to hold an inquest.

2.   She sought a Declaration that the coroner had a duty to hold an inquest into the death.

3.   A coroner has recorded verdicts of accidental death on a family of three killed when their car crashed head on into a tanker.

4.   A coroner had trouble pinning down the time of death.

5.   A coroner has yet to rule the death was a suicide.

6.   An examination of the body failed to determine the cause of death and the coroner had to await toxicological analysis.

7.   Coroners will have the results of a more comprehensive examination in at least a week, he was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.