Assisted Suicide in UK Law
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Examining the Foreseeable: Assisted Suicide as a Herald of Changing Moralities
After her intense battle for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Supreme Court of Canada, Sue Rodriguez committed suicide with medical assistance in 1994. Following her suicide, govern...
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Can the Doctor and Patient Escape the Slippery Slope, Together?
The Assisted Suicide debate has been controversial and longstanding with ethical, medical and legal complexities. Assisted Suicide remains illegal in England and Wales after several Commission Repo...
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The Italian Constitutional Court and the constitutionality of the criminalisation of assisted suicide of patients suffering from serious and incurable diseases
On 16 November 2018, the Italian Constitutional Court addressed for the first time the controversial issue of the constitutionality of the criminalisation of assisted suicide of patients suffering ...
- Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands: Postscript to Chabot
- Physician Assisted Suicide and the United States Constitution
- Clarifying the Law on Assisted Suicide? Ross v Lord Advocate
- Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands: The Chabot Case
- The Dutch Procedure for Mercy Killing and Assisted Suicide by Physicians in a National and International Perspective
- ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill; But Needst Not Strive Officiously to Keep Alive’: Further Clarification of the Law regarding Mercy Killing, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
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A Right to Assist? Assisted Dying and the Interim Policy
There are few more controversial, or emotive, debates within the criminal law than that which surrounds the topic of euthanasia, questioning as it does the fundamental role of the law in regulating...... ... In the wake of the announcement of new guidelines for prosecu- tion in cases of assisted suicide, this article examines the state of the law regarding assisted suicide in England and Wales, and the fragile position of euthanasia within the ... ...
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