Safeguarding life...

while assisting death. What role should the judges take?

A week ago today, MPs voted by 330 votes to 275 to allow Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill a second reading. Immediately afterwards, the public bill committee that will examine these assisted dying proposals next year was granted the power to “send for persons, papers and records.

Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the High Court …