Oh, yes, thank you 999. I don't suggest for a moment that coroners are not acting within the Rules; it's the sense of, and reason for, this particular rule that I query. I say again, why HAVE a jury if they can't decide of a verdict? & also I ask again what the coroner could do if the jury declined to feel bound by it & refused to deliver ANY verdict other than the one they thought was called for, whatever restrictions the coroner might have previously chosen, under the Rules, to place on them.