The role of the Forensic Pathologist. The role of the Forensic Pathologists is to assist coroners, police and courts to resolve critical medical issues, including causes of death, the circumstances in which deaths occurred and how injuries might have been caused.Forensic Pathologists focus on the examination of deceased people.ometimes internal examinations or autopsies are performed to help determine the cause of death. In this work, the Forensic Pathologist is assisted by a range of in-house forensic scientific services such as toxicology, histopathology, DNA testing and microbiology.