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    • don_dunstan posted
    Posted in News » Boy films brothers death skylarking on train

    When the coroner's enquiry seeks to apportion blame and ascribe a cause of death they could perhaps bear in mind the simple fact that anyone of sound mind is deemed responsible for their actions under normal circumstances.
    Gwiwer

    While I fundamentally agree with your position, my own observation of the process is that they tend to view their brief in terms of 'what could have been done to prevent this death', so they love to ascribe blame to factors OTHER than the actions of the deceased and their 0.15 blood alcohol (or their sleeping pill addiction, or their suicidal intention... whatever). Train doors are a classic example of this because it wasn't so long ago that the passengers were responsible for closing the doors behind them - whereas now there would be no question that some idiot falling out of a train with those doors would be exonerated from their own actions because it's the train operator's fault for not providing a safe place for people who aren't responsible for their own silly actions.

    It only takes some idiot over-educated over-paid QC to make a song and dance about what could have been and then next thing you're responsible as the property owner.

    More than half the law graduates now-days can't find work in the profession - that's because (like a lot of graduates today) there's a chronic over-supply of professionals in the field.  Coroner's Court is just one of the mechanisms used to absorb the steadily growing cesspool of over-qualified, under-employed legal experts.

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    Edited 17 Jun 2014 23:14, 7 years ago, edited by don_dunstan

    When the coroner's enquiry seeks to apportion blame and ascribe a cause of death they could perhaps bear in mind the simple fact that anyone of sound mind is deemed responsible for their actions under normal circumstances.
    Gwiwer

    While I fundamentally agree with your position, my own observation of the process is that they tend to view their brief in terms of 'what could have been done to prevent this death', so they love to ascribe blame to factors OTHER than the actions of the deceased and their 0.15 blood alcohol (or their sleeping pill addiction, or their suicidal intention... whatever).  Train doors are a classic example of this because it wasn't so long ago that the passengers were responsible for closing the doors behind them - whereas now there would be no question that some idiot falling out of a train with those doors would be exonerated from their own actions because it's the train operator's fault for not providing a safe place for people who aren't responsible for their own silly actions.

    It only takes some idiot over-educated over-paid QC to make a song and dance about what could have been and then next thing you're responsible as the property owner.