Sentences with phrase «case against assisted suicide»

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In recent times, legal aid has funded key cases that have created new law, be it Colin Ross's successful fight against his local health trust to get life - saving cancer drugs, the Gurkhas» settlement rights claim, or Debbie Purdy's successful bid to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

The question of changing the law against assisted suicide is a matter best left to the Supreme Court of Canada or Parliament, the British Columbia Court of Appeal ruled in a high - profile case today.

It has been 20 odd years since the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the ban against assisted suicide in the Sue Rodriguez case.

I hope that he will go a long way towards indicating that there are very many factors against prosecution in the public interest in cases involving assistance to a person who is mentally capable, where she or he has a terminal illness or incurable disease and decides to have an assisted suicide in a county where it is legal.»