As many will know, by contrast to the position in England and Wales (and indeed Scotland), moves towards legislating for assisted dying / assisted suicide are being taken forward in Jersey as Government legislation. The draft Bill has now been published, and the draft with its accompanying report should, I suggest, make mandatory reading for Parliamentarians in ‘mainland’ UK jurisdictions. Whilst the model being proposed is not identical to that proposed in the current Bills before Westminster and Holyrood, the breadth and depth of the work underpinning the draft Bill, shows, one might think, what is required in other jurisdictions to develop workable legislation.
(For more on work by the Complex Life and Death Decisions group to seek to make the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill good law in England & Wales, see here)
