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Physician-assisted suicide should be the preferred term rather than ‘assisted dying’ when discussing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, writes Professor John Keown, senior research scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, in this week’s NLJ.

Will the latest arguments in favour of the Leadbeater Bill be as flawed as those that came before? Professor John Keown considers what lessons can be learnt from history

As the Bill progresses through Parliament, Athelstane Aamodt looks back at millennia of arguments for & against assisted dying

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, if passed into law in its current form, would ‘create the most tightly regulated regime, with the most safeguards, in the world where access to assisted dying is legal’, writes James Lister, partner at Stevens & Bolton, in this week’s NLJ.

Bringing the assisted dying Bill into force will involve navigating a legal & ethical minefield, says James Lister

MPs have voted 330-275 to pass the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill’s second reading, a private member’s bill brought by Kim Leadbeater MP

Ian Smith combs through four cases addressing important issues of interpretation…including the reach of sexual harassment law

John Cooper KC on how a new film exposes the rot at the heart of how we sentence women

Oil giant Shell has won its appeal against a landmark ruling that it must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions

MPs will debate the controversial Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill later this month

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Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

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Law Officers mark 25 years of Pro Bono Week

The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work

NLJ this week: Costs without limits?

An indemnity costs battle with a £20m gap could reopen an important question: what weight should an approved budget carry?

NLJ this week: Beyond environmental offences

The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed

NLJ this week: New law, old convictions

Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice

NLJ this week: Who shaped the witness’s story?

Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete

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Human rights

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions