The appeals court today dismissed another case for clarification of the assisted suicide laws. Today’s case was brought by Debbie Purdy of Bradford, who wants to take her partner to Switzerland when she goes to a clinic there. The court had no view on it, and said it was up to Parliament.
Although no relatives have been prosecuted for such things, I think it is about time that this was sorted out. By its very nature, unfortunately, it is people with little time who bring these actions and they will always struggle with the glacial speed of the legal system.
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I think this is slightly unfair on the legal system, it isn’t for the courts to make law, the purpose of the legal system in this respect is to ensure fairness and consistency in applying law.
It could be said that it’s impressive that our legal system can adapt law at all, even if to a limited degree, to reflect changing public morals. The clearest example of this is marital rape where judge made law in R v R [1991] 1 All England Law Reports, 747 effectively changed law to protect women before statute was implemented in 1991.
Politicians are the ones who need to step up to the plate and do the job which they were elected for.
Politicians need to step up to the plate in this kind of situation and do something about