Assisted dying

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

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 …