Health

The Law Commission is seeking views on how to regulate alkaline hydrolysis, human composting and other funerary methods outside of burial, cremation or burial at sea

Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, explores the evidential benefits of nail drug and alcohol testing

The assisted dying Bill leaves these terms open to interpretation, argue Edward Hodgson & Andrew Smith

Lawyers have uncovered a major inheritance tax oversight affecting thousands of families of victims of the infected blood scandal

Rachel Davenport, Co-founder and Director at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the company’s commitment to giving back to communities across the UK.

The amended Bill disapplies the coroner’s statutory duty to investigate, so assisted deaths would receive less judicial oversight than other unnatural deaths, writes HH Thomas Teague KC

A former chief coroner of England and Wales expresses surprise that the important safeguard of coronial oversight has been lifted from those seeking an assisted death, in this week’s NLJ.

The safeguarding role of a High Court judge in the assisted dying bill currently before Parliament has been replaced by the oversight of a panel comprising a psychiatrist, social worker and lawyer. In this week’s NLJ, Sir Mark Hedley, a retired High Court judge, shares his reflections on the loss of the judicial role itself.

Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar Council, sets out her plans to pilot reflective practice—an approach used successfully by doctors, social workers and other stress-ridden professionals—at the Bar, in this week’s NLJ.

Sir Mark Hedley on what needs to be considered as a result of this amendment to the assisted dying Bill