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Category: Assisted dying / assisted suicide


Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – update and how to submit useful evidence

Posted on 11 January 2025

I have updated my resources page on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life Bill), but particularly welcome any position… Read more

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill resources page

Posted on 2 December 2024

I have now added a resources page to my website which seeks to set out relevant resources to enable understanding… Read more

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Questions on the Bill (updated and consolidated)

Posted on 24 November 2024 Updated on 20 February 2025

Reassured by the fact that the House of Commons Library seem to have found some of the questions that I… Read more

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Assisted dying / suicide proposals in the United Kingdom and surrounding Crown Dependencies: a comparative table

Posted on 16 November 2024 Updated on 18 November 2024

To enable Parliamentarians (and others) better to understand the state of play with legislative proposals around the United Kingdom and… Read more

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Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – some questions

Posted on 12 November 2024 Updated on 26 January 2025

Kim Leadbeater MP’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has now been published.  At the risk of sounding unduly… Read more

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Assisted dying / suicide – a toolkit for Parliamentarians

Posted on 20 October 2024

Thinking about assisted dying / assisted suicide (the language, as the Health and Social Care Select Committee of the Westminster… Read more

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Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill – update and resources

Posted on 30 July 2024

Lord Falconer’s Private Member’s Bill is now available.  At the time of writing, there is no date yet set for… Read more

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The human condition and physician assisted dying – the latest view from the European Court of Human Rights

Posted on 16 June 2024 Updated on 16 June 2024

In Karsai v Hungary [2024] ECHR 516, the European Court of Human Rights has made clear that, whatever the current… Read more

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Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill – an annotated version with notes and questions

Posted on 11 April 2024

From the perspective of an informed, and very interested, English outsider, I have produced an annotated version of the Member’s… Read more

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Assisted dying / assisted suicide – concrete British realities

Posted on 25 March 2024 Updated on 27 March 2024

Reading some of the recent media coverage of the issue of assisted dying / assisted suicide, people could be forgiven… Read more

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RSS National Archives Mental Capacity cases

  • City of London Corporation v John Bussandra 5 December 2025
  • Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor 1 December 2025
  • Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council v EKK 27 November 2025
  • TKSD Care Homes & Training Ltd & Anor v Care Quality Commission 24 November 2025
  • BV (Medical Treatment) (Renal Cancer; Nephrectomy), Re 20 November 2025
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  • Daly v His Majesty’s Advocate (Scotland) 12 November 2025
  • Andrew James Riddle v NA 6 November 2025
  • RS (Best Interests: Surgery and Intensive Care), Re 5 November 2025

RSS National Archives Mental Health Act cases

  • Angus Cameron v Secretary of State for Justice & Anor 4 December 2025
  • Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor 1 December 2025
  • R v Sundeep Singh 28 November 2025
  • TKSD Care Homes & Training Ltd & Anor v Care Quality Commission 24 November 2025
  • BV (Medical Treatment) (Renal Cancer; Nephrectomy), Re 20 November 2025
  • Sahayb Abu v Secretary of State for Justice 18 November 2025
  • R v Gemma Lisa Hindmarch 30 October 2025
  • Adam Clive Scott v The Estate of Richard Norman Scott & Ors 29 October 2025
  • MK v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Anor 29 October 2025
  • Khamba & Ors v Harrow London Borough Council & Ors 29 October 2025

RSS Mental Health Law Online updates

  • Case (Change of status - conditional discharge recall). Cameron v SSJ [2025] EWCA Civ 1574
  • MH solicitor. Liverpool Law, 'Spotlight on: Peter Edwards' (November 2025)
  • Event. Court of Protection User Group: Property and affairs meeting (online, 21 January 2026)
  • Case (Procedural unfairness). Re R (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 1504
  • Case (Diagnosing death). Barts Health NHS Trust v MC [2025] EWHC 3140 (Fam)
  • Case (Brain stem testing abroad). A London NHS Trust v DT [2025] EWCOP 36 (T3)
  • Case (Cancer treatment). Powys Teaching Health Board v NT [2025] EWCOP 44 (T3)
  • Case (Treatment during s17 leave). Re RM (Application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)) [2024] UKSC 7
  • Case (Ombudsman complaint and tribunal). Hertfordshire County Council (LGSCO, 23 008 805)
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