Tag: Legislation

Holyrood petition backed

'the wake-up call surely has sounded'

Prosecution shift prompts outcry

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

Jim Dobbin’s legacy

We reflect on the principles and priorities of an honourable gentleman, whose approach should serve as a model for others

Lawyers denounce Bill

Regardless of views in principle, Lord Falconer's Bill is 'unsatisfactory', say lawyers Khawar Qureshi QC and Catriona Nicol.

Physician-assisted Suicide: Some Reasons for Rejecting Lord Falconer’s Bill

A report by Professor John Keown of Georgetown University concerning the Assisted Dying Bill and its broader context

Falconer: final weeks

What have you done to oppose the 'Assisted Dying' Bill?

Assisted suicide and depression

Depression is normally a reversible condition, but campaigners regard suicidal tendencies in people with chronic or terminal illnesses not as symptomatic of depression but as a rational will to die

Assisted suicide and dementia

Assumptions about dementia could have major implications for proposed legislation to allow assisted suicide in the UK

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

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

The threat to disabled people

Baroness Campbell, noted disability rights campaigner, discusses the real threat posed to disabled people by the Falconer Bill, and why its passage would constitute 'the triumph of despair over hope'

Disabled leaders speak out

'The Assisted Dying Bill devalues the lives of terminally ill and disabled people'

Scottish Bill Consultation

Care Not Killing has responded to the Scottish Parliament's call for evidence concerning the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill. Have you?

Quick Briefing

Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill

PM against assisted suicide

David Cameron's reaffirmed opposition to assisted suicide is in keeping with other party leaders' comments over recent years

Doctors & prosecution guidelines

BMA past president tells the House of Lords that claims that prosecutorial guidelines 'inhibit' doctors are 'unfounded'

Lords consider DPP’s guidelines

Four years after the then Director of Public Prosecutions published his criteria for prosecuting in instances of assisted suicide, Peers last week locked horns over the merits and demerits of the guidelines.

Council of Europe

Child euthanasia in Belgium has been denounced at the Council's Parliamentary Assembly - 'the democratic conscience of Greater Europe'