{"id":25472,"date":"2026-01-15T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/?post_type=publication22&#038;p=25472"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:21:55","slug":"amending-the-coroners-act-to-enable-annual-reviews-of-non-natural-deaths-in-correctional-institutions","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/amending-the-coroners-act-to-enable-annual-reviews-of-non-natural-deaths-in-correctional-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Amending the Coroners Act to Enable Annual Reviews of Non-natural Deaths in Correctional Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"The Legal Network and HALCO oppose the proposed amendment to the Coroners Act that seeks to replace<br \/>\nmandatory inquests for non-natural deaths in provincial and federal correctional institutions with<br \/>\nmandatory coroner-led annual reviews. This proposal represents a significant erosion of transparency and<br \/>\ngovernment accountability. While the Ministry frames this change as an efficiency measure, it ultimately<br \/>\nserves to further obscure deaths in custody and increases the risk of future preventable harms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Amending-the-Coroners-Act-to-Enable-Annual-Reviews-of-Non-natural-Deaths-in-Correctional-Institutions.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/25464\/?tmstv=1777650657\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[],"publication_type":[],"publication_language":[],"class_list":["post-25472","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/25472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/25472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25583,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/25472\/revisions\/25583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}