The ruling reversed a June 2006 decision by Surrogate Renee R. Roth, which found a statutory presumption of death three years after Dr. Philip disappeared, on Sept. 10, 2004, but refused to declare her a victim of the attack.
At the statutory inquest his death was officially ruled an accident; caused by a gradual buildup of Carbitral in his system, combined with alcohol.
The NHS Information Centre links HES and statutory records of death to establish whether a patient died after surgery.
But this semantic difficulty does not arise in many countries, including my own, that do not have a statutory definition of death.
If the reason for monitoring is to assess the ability of the organisation or system under scrutiny to retain staff it is important that any monitoring can differentiate between permanent and temporary moves, and what has been termed "involuntary" turnover or attrition (e.g. statutory retirement, ill health, death) and "voluntary" turnover, resignation or attrition [ 2, 15].
In the United Kingdom, statutory obligations to register deaths date only from 1874, and at that time it was not even necessary for a doctor to have viewed the corpse.
In January 2001, the health secretary, Alan Milburn, ordered a statutory public inquiry into her death headed by former chief inspector of social services, Lord Herbert Laming.
Mr. Williamson suggested an omnibus transportation bill to avoid having each of the many statutory changes required "die the death of a thousand cuts," said John Langmore, a lawyer hired to draft the bill.
Registration coverage of this system fluctuates around 90%. Mortality rates were obtained from Statistics Netherlands, which registers mortality data from death certificates on a statutory basis.
