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Human Rights and Wrongs

The Reith Lectures

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The Suicide Act Is a Question of Law

The Supreme Court had to deal with one of the most sensitive and controversial moral issues of our time, assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The Strasbourg court previously held that the whole issue was culturally and politically too sensitive to permit of a single pan-European answer. Two of the nine judges who sat on this appeal thought that the question was ultimately one for the courts. One of the three threatened that unless this was satisfactorily addressed, the courts would do it for them.

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