Assisted dying safeguards
Former senior family judge questions effectiveness of planned new panel
A recent amendment to the assisted dying bill proposed by its backbench MP sponsor “still falls lamentably short of providing adequate safeguards”, according to a former president of the High Court family division.
Sir James Munby, who retired in 2018 as the senior family judge of England and Wales, assessed plans by Kim Leadbeater MP to replace High Cou…
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