webinar
Forensic Pathology and Coroners Death Investigations
- Understand how medico-legal death investigators interact with families during the investigation.
- Learn the key differences between an inquest and a criminal trial.
- 45 min on-demand webinar
- $45 AUD, instant access

Course overview
Forensic Pathology and Coroners Death Investigations
Finally, the nature of a coroner’s inquest hearing will be discussed focusing of the difference between an inquest and a criminal trial.
This session was originally presented during the MyKludo Virtual Investigations Conference held 6-8 December 2021.

Presenter
Professor David Ranson
Professor David Ranson is Deputy Director and Head of Forensic Services at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.
David graduated in Medicine from The University of Nottingham in 1980 and in Law from the University of the West of England in 1987. He worked for many years as a clinical forensic physician for Avon and Somerset Constabulary in the UK and later for Victoria Police.
In his current role David manages the delivery of forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, and related forensic science services to Victorian justice system, including the Coroners Court, Victoria Police and key justice agencies in Victoria. David is also the Medical Director of the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria which provides human tissue for transplantation in Victoria. David holds adjunct academic posts as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University and as a Professor in the La Trobe Law School.
David has worked overseas investigating deaths, providing Victim Identification services and supporting the repatriation of victims to their families in a number of military and civil disturbances and natural disasters including Kosovo, the Bali bombings, the humanitarian response to the Thailand Tsunami and the loss of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.