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Should courts facilitate death?

Should courts facilitate death?

Retired judge sees ‘insuperable obstacles’ to judicial involvement

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Joshua Rozenberg
Nov 01, 2024
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A former senior judge has said that judicial involvement in a proposed reform to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to end their lives with the assistance of doctors and the approval of a court would be “problematic, to put it mildly”.

Sir James Munby

As president of the High Court family division, Sir James Munby was the senior family judge…

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