Judges rule that the Suicide Act is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and legitimate 'to avoid creating a slippery slope leading to incremental expansion'
'We welcome the decision by the High Court to completely reject this attempt to change the law and hope that as a society we can now turn our attention to the important issue of ensuring the highest level of palliative and social care...'
Where supposedly strictly defined assisted suicide laws are based on six month prognoses, we are every year reminded that these are arbitrary and (sometimes startlingly) unreliable
With a snap election set for 8 June and assisted suicide campaigners as eager as ever, Parliamentary candidates must be presented with the evidence and pressed for their views
As in previous landmark court cases, the Care Not Killing Alliance will intervene now that the Court of Appeal has allowed a judicial review on assisted suicide
Disability rights activists have announced that, should it be given lead to proceed, they will intervene in a new bid for assisted suicide in the High Court
Things have been quieter than usual on the end of life front in the UK since the overwhelming defeat of Rob Marris's and Patrick Harvie's assisted suicide bills in 2015 in the Westminster and Scottish Parliament's respectively. But there is new activity in the UK and plenty happening abroad. What can we expect this year?
Assisted suicide advocates bring new attempt before the courts - a case built on legal ground already assessed and ruled on by the highest courts in the land
All campaigning organisations have back-stocks of material to use up, but assisted suicide advocates' recent revival of an old publication raises some pointed questions
