Chris

An inquest is supposed to establish the identity of the deceased, the time and location of their death, the medical cause of death and the verdict in law. Legally, it is strictly limited to those objectives however most of the inquests I covered as a hack allowed background evidence about the deceased, basically because it was a last chance to say nice things about someone whose death was sudden or unexplained, for the benefit of the relatives. So I'd say there are a good few acres of precedent for this approach.