The assisted dying bill, as currently drafted, risks criminalising compassionate actions and leaves too much to prosecutorial discretion, Edward Hodgson, associate, and Andrew Smith, partner, Corker Binning, argue in this week’s NLJ
One of the safeguards under the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is cl 26, a new criminal offence of applying ‘dishonesty, coercion or pressure’. Hodgson and Smith identify several unanswered questions about cl 26 and the definitions within.
They write: ‘At present, the boundaries of the offences are worryingly vague.’RELATED ARTICLES
