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What would Kim Leadbeater’s bill do — and what role would judges have?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Nov 14, 2024
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Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has the same aims as Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which it supersedes and which I wrote about in August. But Leadbeater’s bill has been extensively redrafted — no doubt with government help — and introduces enhanced safeguards.

My aim in writing this piece is to …

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