Corner Court:


An officer with the duty of inquiring into the matter of death of any person who is slain or dies in suspicious circumstances, or in prison. In Pakistan a Coroner is an officer appointed by the Government to hold an enquiry of deaths suspected as unnatural and suspicious in his jurisdiction and only Karachi city possess Coroners. In other towns District Magistrates and other Magistrates are ex-officio coroners, although they seldom act as such. Coroner’s Court is a Court of enquiry and not a Court of trial.

Duties of a Coroner:
Following are the duties of Coroner:

1.      Enquiry of unnatural deaths:
He is responsible to hold enquiry in a case where dead body lying in his jurisdiction, in those cases mode of death is sudden and unnatural.

2.      Enquiry of suicide:
This Court holds enquiry where mode is death is suicide or homicide (killing during self-defence or justifiable). Manslaughter is a killing due to irresistible impulsion while murder is unlawful and unjustifiable killing of human being.

3.      Enquiry of accident and poisonous: Holding of enquiry of deaths caused in accidents and by poison.

4.      Enquiry of roadside accident:
Where any accident is happened at roadside, it also comes under the jurisdiction of Coroner Court. This Court holds enquiry on such accidents.

5.      Enquiry of police custody or in school: If death is occurred during police custody, in the Court of Law, in jail, while asylum, or in certified school, Coroner Court holds enquiry to find out the reasons of the death.

6.      Order for postmortem:
This Court may also order for the postmortem or may call medical man to conduct such thing so that root cause of the death may be found out.

7.      Summoning medical personnel: Coroner Court may summon the medical personnel who have conducted postmortem so that they may give evidence. They may be called in coroner Court.

8.      Order for identification:
This coroner Court may order for the identification of the dead body.

9.      Appointment of deputy coroner:
When coroner temporarily leaves the Court due to any reasonable cause such as fever, may appoint deputy coroner to continue the functioning of the Court.

Difference between Coroner and Magistrate Courts:
Both of the courts are different to some extent. Differences are highlighted as under:

1.      Type of Court:

Coroner's court holds mere enquiry.

Magistrate's court is a Court of trial.

2.      Presence of Accused:

Presence of accused is not necessary during the enquiry in Coroner's court.

Presence of accused is legal requirement during trial before Magistrate's court.

3.      Punishment:

Coroner Court mere conducts enquiry by cannot impose fine or punishment.

Upto the extent of jurisdiction, Magistrate imposes fine and punishment.

4.      Contempt of Court:

Coroner's Court does not follow the rules of contempt of Court but if contempt is committed within the precincts (area) of Court, Court may punish the offender.

Every contempt is liable to punish regardless the area of commission of offence. Magistrate has power to punish offenders.

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