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The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP and the Chief Coroner Peter Thornton QC have approved the appointment of Edwin Buckett as an Assistant Coroner for Inner London North. Edwin will sit part-time, approximately 3 weeks a year, from October 2016.
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