Tag: Purdy
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Leah Grolman and Greg Weeks: Guidelines and Assisted Suicide: an Australian Perspective
The morally and politically charged area of assisted suicide has many of the hallmarks of an insoluble problem. This has not prevented courts in some jurisdictions considering how they might ‘legalise’ assisted suicide without really legalising it. In doing so, they have raised manifold challenges in the minds of administrative and constitutional lawyers, including, in…
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Richard Ekins: Defying the law: a reply to Daly
I’m grateful to Paul Daly for bringing to my attention the Irish High Court’s Fleming decision and the Ménard Report. However, I think he is wrong to censure the former (at least, as harshly as he does) and to laud the latter. Should the High Court have granted the application to order the Director of…
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Paul Daly: Death, Democracy and Delegation
Decisions on when to end one’s life are unquestionably of the greatest intimacy. Yet there is a clear public interest in ensuring that these decisions are carefully regulated to ensure the safety of the vulnerable. Accordingly, quite what legal framework should govern end-of-life-decisions — if, indeed, there should be any framework at all — is…
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Nick Barber: The Decline of Mercy
Many years ago, I was invited to speak on the radio about the obligation to obey the law. One comment made a lasting impression on me. In the course of a wide-ranging, and fickle, survey of the law’s relationship with morality, the judge in our group declared that one of the great things about the…