The Legal Network and HALCO oppose the proposed amendment to the Coroners Act that seeks to replace mandatory inquests for non-natural deaths in provincial and federal correctional institutions with mandatory coroner-led annual reviews. This proposal represents a significant erosion of transparency and government accountability. While the Ministry frames this change as an efficiency measure, it serves to further obscure deaths in custody and increases the risk of future preventable harms.
Please see here for more details. http://www.halco.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Legal-Network-Coroners-Act-Comment-Final.pdf