ABSTRACT
The applicants in the judicial review case of ex p Stringer (1993) faced a difficult task in challenging, amongst other things, the failure to leave lack of care. Lack of care was perceived, in the official discourse of coronial law, to mean the other side of self-neglect with a very close and direct causal relationship between the conduct under question and the individual death. It was traditionally associated with lack of, for example, medical care for a prisoner dependent on it. It was not normally seen to apply to a complex disaster scenario with a long chain of causation (Sturt, 1988).
