Coroners Findings and Recommendations
Coroners Findings and Recommedations
Coroners have a duty to identify any lessons learned from the deaths referred to them that might help prevent such deaths occurring in the future.
In order to publicise these lessons, the findings and recommendations of most cases are open to the public.
Our databases list only those cases that were opened under the new Coroners Act 2006 (that came into legislation on 1 July 2007), and that have been closed.
The Coronial Services Unit, in collaboration with the New Zealand Legal Information Institute, aims to provide free online access to all Coroner Recommendations and Findings. For those Recommendations made in 2011, in the search box below you can search for cases by name of the deceased or by key word. For Recommendations made between 2007 and 2010 the Recommendations appear below under the respective year.
If you cannot find the case you are looking for, or if the case was opened prior to midnight on 30 June 2007, you can request information by writing to:
National Manager
Coronial Services of New Zealand
Private Bag 39819
Wellington Mail Centre
LOWER HUTT 5045
Click here for Findings
Click here for Recommendations older than 2011
