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NLJ this week: Legal & ethical complexities of the assisted dying Bill

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06 December 2024
Issue: 8097 / Categories: Legal News , Health , Human rights
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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.

Nevertheless, the practicalities of ensuring the safeguards are effective as well as many other problematic hurdles—as the author notes, 'assessments of capacity to end a life will be unprecedented’— present complex legal and ethical questions.

Lister outlines some of the difficulties this radical and highly controversial bill will encounter. 
Issue: 8097 / Categories: Legal News , Health , Human rights
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