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High Court rules on Conway

Articles
4 October, 2017

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’

Care Not Killing welcomes decision to reject legal challenge to suicide law

Press Releases
4 October, 2017

‘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…’

Longer than expected

Articles
29 September, 2017

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

Conway: High Court case begins

Articles
17 July, 2017

A change in the law to allow assisted suicide is dangerous and unnecessary

General Election 2017

Articles
19 April, 2017

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

Judicial review: CNK to intervene

Press Releases
12 April, 2017

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

Judicial review denied

Press Releases
30 March, 2017

High Court judges have denied a judicial review concerning legal principles already assessed in the highest courts and Parliament

Not Dead Yet to intervene in case

Articles
22 March, 2017

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

Same debate, different day

Events Reports
14 March, 2017

Peers discuss assisted suicide legislation abroad, as advocates seek to keep Parliamentary debate alive

CNK evidence before NZ Parliament

Submissions
6 March, 2017

Care Not Killing’s Campaign Director testifies before New Zealand Health Select Committee

What to expect of 2017

Articles
28 February, 2017

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?

New case to cover old ground

Articles
18 January, 2017

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

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