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Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
End-of-life practices in England and Wales
Assisting and encouraging suicide
Palliative sedation and passive euthanasia
Assisted suicide and euthanasia: a global perspective
Legally permissive jurisdictions
Assisted suicide and rights jurisprudence
Assisted suicide vis-a-vis other end-of-life practices
Conclusion
Notes
Protecting life and assisting death: Is not allowing assisted dying a violation of the right to life?
Does the blanket ban engage the right to life?
The State’s general positive obligation to protect life
Does the blanket ban violate the State’s operational obligation under Article 2?
Rectifying the incompatibility
Conclusion
Notes
Freedom from torture or inhuman or degrading treatment: Does the prohibition on assisted suicide violate Article 3?
Does the blanket ban constitute ‘treatment’ under Article 3?
The minimum level of severity
General principles
Torture, inhuman, or degrading treatment: does the blanket ban reach the minimum threshold?
The minimum level of severity - specific cases
The positive obligation to protect
Rectifying the incompatibility
Conclusion
Notes
The right to choose the manner and timing of one’s death: A re-examination of the ban’s proportionality
Justifying an interference: the Article 8(2) requirements
‘In accordance with the law’
Prosecutions under s 2, Suicide Act 1961
Legality and Article 8(2): the utility of the post-Purdy
‘Legitimate aim’
Conway and the blanket ban’s legitimate aim(s)
‘Necessary in a democratic society’
Section 2 of the Suicide Act and the domestic proportionality test
Rectifying the incompatibility: assisted suicide and euthanasia?
Conclusion
Notes
Justifying the blanket ban on assisted suicide: Considering the empirical evidence
The applicability of Carter
The rights and analyses in issue
The evidence before the courts
The evidence before the Conway Divisional High Court
The ‘beneficiaries’ of the Carter decision
The material findings in Carter
Protecting vulnerable individuals
Protecting the doctor/patient relationship
Protecting the sanctity of life
Subsequent data
Protecting the vulnerable
Conclusions on the evidence concerning vulnerable individuals
Protecting the doctor/patient relationship
Protecting sanctity of life
Conclusion
Notes
Differential treatment of end-of-life practices: Discrimination under Article 14 of the ECHR?
Discrimination
The legal definition of‘suicide’ in England and Wales
The common law prohibition on suicide
‘Suicide’ and the CJA: the meaning of ‘suicide’
Suicide and intention
CRIMINAL LAW CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF INTENTION IN ENGLAND AND WALES
SUICIDE, INTENTION, AND COMPETENCE
SUICIDE AND INTENTION: CONCLUSIONS
Suicide and causation
CAUSATION IN SUICIDE CONCLUSIONS
CRIMINAL LAW CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF CAUSATION
ACTS CAUSATIVE OF DEATH
Summary
‘Suicide’ and withdrawal/refusal of treatment: a re-examination of the legal classification of assisted dying
Assisted dying and suicide: some conclusions
Differential treatment of ‘suicide’: implications for Article 14
Conclusion
Rectifying the incompatibility
Notes
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