Introduction

The 2021 Supreme Court judgment in Morm lowered the standard of proof for a conclusion in suicide cases and unlawful killing cases. Matthew Hill, from One Crown Office Road talks about three interesting cases that illustrate this trend. The link between the criminal jurisdiction has been inherent to coroner's courts going back to their medieval origins. After 1977, Coronavian requests could no longer frame conclusions that appeared to determine questions of criminal liability. So you see a move towards the criminal jurisdiction taking the primary role in determining cases of homicide.