Thread: Legal Question...

probably do worse than starting here :

Coroners Court of Victoria - Inquests

You could try newspapers. The national library has every page of every paper ever printed on microfilm.

Originally Posted by 9999

You could try newspapers. The national library has every page of every paper ever printed on microfilm.

I am not in Vic to go look or it would be not such a task.

But looking more for court documents and arguements etc anyway....but some news stuff would be good also.

I tried to find old news articles from a paper once...no luck.

Originally Posted by Mid

probably do worse than starting here :

Coroners Court of Victoria - Inquests

Buggered if I can find an email address on that site.

Look at this page Coroners Court of Victoria - Access to Documents

The email address is under "How do I apply for access to documents"

Note:-

Who can apply for access?

Generally, you need to be an 'interested party' in an investigation to gain access to documents. To become an interested party, you must write to the court and explain your interest in the case, and list the documents you want.
The 'senior next of kin' is usually included as an interested party. Unless the coroner decides otherwise, all interested parties receive a copy of the brief of evidence prepared for an inquest. The senior next of kin also receives any medical reports.



A coroner may also release documents to:

• a statutory body for a statutory function
• a member of the police force for law enforcement
• researchers, for research approved by an ethics committee
• anyone who can satisfy the coroner that it is in public interest.

Thanks for that....dunno why they cannot put it on the easy to find...'contacts' page.

Search for the website: Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)

or you may have go through LexisNexis which costs money.

^ austlii won't yield any results given nawtys parameters.

lexisnexis (as you noted) is a subscription based service and nawtys too cheap for that and besides, it wouldn't give (all) the info that he seems to be looking for - just the reported or unreported decision. His real problem is identifying the matter based on the victims name as it would have been a crown prosecution - after that, it wouldn't be so hard to make some headway.

what you mean based on victims name...?

Originally Posted by Nawty

what you mean based on victims name...?

Lets say John Citizen killed/maimed/raped etc etc your victim whose name for ease is Nawty - because thats what you said:

Originally Posted by Nawty

All I have is the date of the incident, the name of the victim.

So, you aren't going to find a case that old based on the victims name or even a reference to the victim - you will be looking for something like "R -v- Citizen" in a time range of when the incident happened but the actual reference to the case will be the date its reported (which could be up to 2years later). So your first step will be to identify the offender. As you seem interested in coroner reports, obviously it involved a murder or manslaughter charge and as such, most likely reported in the paper - but when will be the issue and how much info you can get will depend on how much the case drew interest from the media.

Also to throw you a bone, a case that old will be in State archives.

are state archives online ?

Check it out yourself:

Public Record Office Victoria (PROV)

Yeah found it already, no record of the person I am looking for.

Shall wait to hear back from coroners office and see what they got.