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Introduction: Frontiers in Coronial Justice – ushering in a new era of coronial research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2016

Rebecca Scott Bray  and
Greg Martin
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 12 , Issue 2: Frontiers in Coronial Justice – ushering in a new era of coronial research , June 2016 , pp. 103 - 114
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