Introduction .....................................................................................................................
77
Planning
and preparing for
fatalities ...............................................................................
78
Estimates
of UK military
fatalities .............................................................................
78
Repatriation
policy ....................................................................................................
79
Preparing
to hold civilian
inquests ............................................................................
80
Support for
bereaved
families .........................................................................................
83
The
Casualty Notification Officer and Visiting Officer ...............................................
83
Immediate
remedial action on bereavement
procedures ..........................................
84
Joint
procedures and a Joint Casualty Co‑ordination
Cell ........................................ 89
Training
and support for Casualty Notification Officers and Visiting
Officers .....
91
The
experience of bereaved
families ........................................................................
92
Early
concerns about military
investigations ...................................................................
94
Impact of a
study on military inquiries and investigations, March
2004 .................... 94
Review of
Service Police investigations, October 2004 ..........................................
100
Changes to
MOD processes .........................................................................................
103
Creation of
the Army Inquest
Cell ...........................................................................
104
Reducing
the number of redactions in BOI reports released to
families .................
105
Creation of
the Defence Inquests Unit ....................................................................
107
Introduction
of Service
Inquiries .............................................................................
113
Efforts to
reduce the backlog of inquests, 2005 to
2007 ...............................................
113
Support for
the Oxfordshire Coroner ......................................................................
113
Discussions
on funding ....................................................................................
117
Progress in
clearing the backlog of
inquests ....................................................
119
Efforts to
transfer more inquests to local
coroners .................................................
121
Support for
the Swindon and Wiltshire
Coroner .....................................................
125
Efforts to
improve the inquest process, 2006 to
2009 ...................................................
126
US
participation in
inquests ....................................................................................
126
Legal
representation at
inquests .............................................................................
130
The
Coroners and Justice Act,
2009 .......................................................................
135
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