Human rights

Up to 1,300 people in the first year and up to 7,500 people in the tenth year are expected to have an assisted suicide in the UK, according to the impact analysis of Kim Leadbeater MP’s Private Member’s Bill

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

The Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers has sparked heated debate and a lot of confusion about what it means exactly in practice. In this week’s NLJ, Nicholas Dobson takes an in-depth look at some of the legal arguments behind the judgment.

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.

Former judge Victoria McCloud, who retired last year, is applying to bring an Art 6 right to a fair trial infringement case against the UK before the European Court of Human Rights. 

The safeguarding role of a High Court judge in the assisted dying bill currently before Parliament has been replaced by the oversight of a panel comprising a psychiatrist, social worker and lawyer.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.

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

Job applicants are not protected as whistleblowers, the Court of Appeal has confirmed.

In the first of a series of articles tracking the passage of the Bill, Michael Zander KC reports on slow progress in committee

Is the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as radical as many critics would have us believe? In this week’s NLJ, Professor Graham Zellick KC, a Senior Master of the Bench, asserts it is not.