Law's Expanding Empire
The Reith Lectures
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The Law on Assistive Dying Is Not Working
Anne Weilley from Charles von Zepeter in Buckinghamshire. Her husband, Jeffrey, was dying of motor neuron disease and wanted to avoid the final agonizing weeks that lay ahead. She helped him by arranging his final flight and accompaniment. In doing this, I was criminally accused by an anonymous notification of our plans and I was interviewed under caution. The investigation was eventually dropped, but the police intrusion into our lives devastated our family. But when we have a broken law that is causing a great deal of suffering to many people, where else do we turn to but the courts?
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