Sentences with phrase «abetting suicide»

Peter argues that the court struck down section 241 (b) in its entirety and that, after June 6th (when the suspension expires), we will be left with no criminal prohibition of aiding and abetting suicide under any conditions.

Purdy is asking the DPP to specify what would be considered to be aiding and abetting suicide.

However, am I ready this time to face the possibility of aiding and abetting a suicide (even if it's legal)?

One of Canada's prisoners of conscience, Mary Wagner, in a moving letter from her Vanier Centre cell, writes of her concern that many members of our Christian medical associations, «despite their earnest desire to resist doctor - abetted suicide, have succumbed to defeatism.»

In 1992, Sue Rodriguez made a public request for assisted suicide by claiming that section 241 of the Criminal Code, which makes it an offence to aid or abet suicide, violated sections 7, 12 and 15 of the Charter.

Not exact matches

The existing law on assisting someone to kill themselves is described in the Suicide Act 1961 as «a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or attempt by another to commit suicide&Suicide Act 1961 as «a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or attempt by another to commit suicide&suicide of another, or attempt by another to commit suicide&suicide».

SA 1961, s 2 (1) also provides that: «A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable on conviction or indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.»

Simply providing information about suicide, or indeed glorifying it, does not in itself amount to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring it, any more than providing information about ways to commit murder would constitute an offence.

In a Charter decision that may already rank among its most significant, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously struck down the criminal offences that prohibit aiding or abetting a person to commit suicide this past month.

In a lengthy but well - crafted judgment, the BC Supreme Court found that criminal laws preventing physicians from aiding or abetting persons to commit suicide were unconstitutional, as these provisions absolutely preventing patient access to physician - assisted death violated the s. 7 and...

As it stands, euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada (Section 241 makes it illegal to (a) counsel, or (b) aid or abet, a person to commit suicide), which applies in all provinces and territories including Quebec and can not be amended by provincial / territorial enactment.