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Assisted suicide
On 6 February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada reversed its ruling on assisted suicide. In 1993, in a […]
The morally and politically charged area of assisted suicide has many of the hallmarks of an insoluble problem. […]
I’m grateful to Paul Daly for bringing to my attention the Irish High Court’s Fleming decision and the […]
Decisions on when to end one’s life are unquestionably of the greatest intimacy. Yet there is a clear […]
What considerations can justify a court overturning a recent constitutional precedent? This constitutional perennial is once again in […]