Are there any Coroners or District Judges on Mumsnet?

[CountessDracula]

I would be very interested to talk to you...

are you planning a murder and want to cover your tracks on the slab CD?

LOL! NO!

DH thinking of becoming one and I thought it would be good if I could find one and talk to them about the realities IYKWIM!

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a coroner or a district judge??

aren't they remarkably different professions?

They are but they are both areas he could get into, he is a lawyer at the moment

a coroner? like Quincy???

Like Quincy, only with a better car you mean ?

I don't know what car Quincy had I'm afraid
I thought he was a pathologist but haven't seen for years...

county coroner surely

complete with theme tune

don't you have to be a doctor as well as a lawyer to be a coroner?

no it's either a doctor or a lawyer (but fraid that's all I know about being a coroner!)

think i'm getting confused with patricia cornwell novels!

did Kay Scarpetta do law school as well then - I remember her being one of two women in her med school and people not lending her notes when she was ill in one of the Patricia Cornwell books?

yes she was a lawyer and a doctor. cornwell never really talks about her being a lawyer just refers to the fact she is in several books. Am a big fan but hated her last one

yes, I'm not really a Lucy fan, and she's taking too much of a role in recent books. think the last few books after Point of Origin are a bit rubbish tbh.

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She's becoming a bit "chief of the world" in the latest books!

at the mo you can be lawyer or doctor to be coroner, they are about to change so you can only do if you are lawyer.

DH is medical lawyer

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Bumping in the hope that something useful gets posted.

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one thing I was wondering is whether your DH has had a chat with his firm about this yet - just wondered if being a coroner, given his line of work is med neg, would be likely to cause more problems re:potential conflict of interest than being a district judge

or is your DH thinking of leaving private practice?

oh yes defo!