Generally there are no appeals from the decision of a coroner, although there is provision for the Supreme Court of Victoria to order an inquest or to grant prerogative relief in respect of the proceedings.
The office of coroner in Victoria derives from the legal framework inherited from the United Kingdom.
[1] The governor's commission entitled him to appoint coroners for the Colony of New South Wales, and this was most likely to have been to justices of the peace.
The first coroner of Melbourne and the county of Bourke was Dr William Byam Wilmot MD.
He was appointed by the then Superintendent of Port Phillip, but later Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria, Charles La Trobe, in 1841.