A lawyer who advised doctors that they must let a 22-year-old Jehovah's Witness die even though he wanted to live has spoken of the agonising scenes before the young man's death.
Hospitals may be depriving elderly patients of food and drink to hasten their deaths as part of cost-cutting measures to free up bed space, leading doctors warn.
More than 11,000 people were deprived of their liberty last year using controversial new legislation that critics have argued is “not fit for purpose”. New figures released by the Department of Health reveal how local authorities and hospitals are increasingly relying on so-called Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS) orders to detain people for their own safety.
A woman who aborted her own baby in the final phase of her pregnancy has been jailed for eight years. Sarah Louise Catt, 35, of North Yorkshire, took a drug when she was full term, 39 weeks pregnant, to cause an early delivery.
The family of a man who fought for the right-to-die hope to continue the campaign after seeking permission to appeal against a High Court ruling. Tony Nicklinson, 58, who suffered from locked-in syndrome, died in August, a week after losing his legal bid to end his life with a doctor's help. His family have lodged papers at the Court of Appeal asking to allow his widow, Jane, to take up his case.
Two severely disabled men will go to the Court of Appeal later to try to change laws governing the right to die. Paul Lamb, from Leeds, was paralysed from the neck down in a car accident and wants a doctor to help him to die. The 58-year-old, who has taken up the case begun by the late Tony Nicklinson, is seeking a ruling that would give doctors a defence to a murder charge. The other man, known only as Martin, is seeking a change to the prosecution of assisted suicide.
Judges reject Paul Lamb's request for help from doctors to die but allow another man to get help to travel to Swiss clinic. The court of appeal has rejected a request by a paralysed man that doctors should be allowed to help him die. But the judges did allow another appeal by a man suffering from locked-in syndrome to seek medical help if he travels to a suicide clinic in Switzerland.
The man’s lawyer stressed the case was not covered by the shadow of eugenics The Court of Protection could make legal history this month if it sanctions the sterilisation of a man with learning difficulties who lacks the ability to give permission.
Jonathan Agnew, the cricket broadcaster, offered to take his stepchildren’s father to Dignitas for an assisted suicide while he was suffering from motor neurone disease, he has revealed.
A high court has ruled that two sisters must have the MMR jab against their wishes and the wishes of their mother. The decision was made after the father of the girls, aged 15 and 11, brought the case to the High Court in September.