While the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 will improve access to justice in specific categories of inquests, a problem with equality of arms' will remain in other cases. For example, if an individual is killed during an accident in the workplace, the employer is likely to have expensive legal representation at the inquest funded by its insurers. By contrast, the deceased's family may be forced to attend the inquest involving upsetting evidence from the pathologist and complex technical details about workplace machinery without any representation. The new act does not contain any measures to improve this type of situation, which would heighten the distress of a family already at their most vulnerable and may lead to health and safety issues not being fully explored. Until the government provides wider access to funded representation at inquests and ensures that the parties are in an equal position, it cannot achieve the objective of placing bereaved families at the heart of the coroner system.