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Tag: Disability

CNK welcomes the Appeal Court rulings on the Nicklinson and Lamb cases but favours the dissenting opinion on ‘Martin’

Senior judges 'comprehensively and completely' reject challenge to murder law

Groningen Protocol

Asked for evidence of the much-maligned 'slippery slope', our Campaign Director shocked radio listeners with a Dutch protocol under which disabled babies can be euthanized.

Marie Fleming loses appeal challenging Irish ban on assisted suicide

Irish Supreme Court rules that there is 'no explicit right to commit suicide, or to determine the time of one's own death' in Ireland's Constitution.

‘L’ drops anonymity in Nicklinson appeal

Paul Lamb's tragic personal circumstances must not blind us to the deadly consequences of undermining the murder law

Landmark Irish ‘right to die’ case is based on flawed assumption

Marie Fleming's appeal before Dublin's Supreme Court is based on a failure to understand the law's basis and intention

Huge opposition to assisted suicide in Massachusetts from doctors and disabled people in lead up to ballot

The US state of Massachusetts is to hold a referendum on the legalisation of assisted suicide next month.

Life with locked-in syndrome

Most people with 'locked-in syndrome' do not wish to die.

Pleas to change law in locked-in syndrome cases rejected: ‘dispassionate court’ gets it right- compassionately

'dispassionate court' gets it right- compassionately

Court ruling on assisted suicide reflects discriminatory attitudes to disabled people

This article was prompted by the recent court ruling in British Columbia to declare Canada's law against assisted suicide unconstitutional

Being careful what you wish for

Nikki Kenward expresses her opinion about what a law change would mean for those with serious disability

Tony Nicklinson’s case is tragic but there are limits to choice in a free society

Tony Nicklinson is 58. He is seeking permission for a doctor to actively end his life.

Most people with locked-in syndrome do not wish to die

Most with locked-in syndrome do not wish to die. But Tony Nicklinson is seeking legal permission for a doctor to actively end his life

Case of locked-in syndrome seeks to establish dangerous precedent, say CNK

A case of 'locked-in syndrome' before the courts could establish a very dangerous precedent

Case of locked-in syndrome seeks to establish dangerous precedent

Case seeks to establish dangerous precedent

Mum, I love you

Paralysed man's first words in 19 years

Tony Nicklinson – there are limits to choice in a free society

Man with locked-in syndrome begins high court battle.

A severely disabled man from Wiltshire is to ask the High Court to allow a doctor to end his life.

A severely disabled man from Wiltshire is to ask the High Court to allow a doctor to end his life.

Care Not Killing welcomes court decision to maintain care for brain-damaged woman

Care Not Killing welcomes court decision to maintain care for brain-damaged woman
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