[Malpractice--unnatural death. Medico-legal problems in the diagnostic activity of pathologists (author's transl)]

According to definitions of medical malpractice and of unnatural death it is established that medical measures under criminal principles of causality come into consideration as causes of death even without proof of guilt. That clinical and scientific sections are turned into means of judicial redress by the provisions of the Cemetery and Burial Act is challenged. It is recommended--as has been the case in other European countries for a long time--that all doctors have a duty of compulsory notification of signs of unnatural death.