Tag: Courts

Conway appeal gets green light

Autonomy is not absolute and the Court of Appeal should dismiss this renewed challenge

Courts consider food & fluids

Supreme Court to rule on whether doctors can remove food and fluids from brain-damaged patients without going to court

Autumn media comment

You'll often have seen our colleagues speaking on TV during high profile legislative battles, but here are a few of our many more low key media contributions from Autumn 2017

High Court rules on Conway

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

'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...'

Conway: High Court case begins

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

Judicial review: CNK to intervene

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

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

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

New case to cover old ground

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

MS court ruling: law reshaped

Court permission for nutrition to be withdrawn from a woman with MS represents 'judicial mission creep with judges shaping and remaking the law.'

Scottish Court rejects legal bid

The Outer House of the Court of Session in Edinburgh rules that the law dealing with assisted suicide in Scotland is clear, consistent and not in need of clarification

ECtHR: legal bid ‘inadmissible’

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has found the latest Nicklinson/Lamb legal challenge to be 'manifestly ill-founded and declared it inadmissible'

DPP guidelines: legal challenge

Director of Public Prosecutions faces new legal challenge for 'clarifying' guidelines on prosecutions for assisted suicide

Disabled Canadians react to court

Canadian student Taylor Hyatt lives with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, and was one of many disabled people to express grave concerns over the 6 February Supreme Court of Canada ruling concerning assisted suicide

Canada ruling ‘irresponsible’

Campaigner Alex Schadenberg on the Supreme Court of Canada's instruction of the federal Parliament to legislate for assisted suicide - within 12 months

Prosecution shift prompts outcry

The DPP needs to explain to Parliament why she has seemingly decriminalised physician assisted suicide

Comment: MPs don’t need to change the law on assisted suicide

Lawyer David Foster considers June's Supreme Court ruling, and its implications