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Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights (Hardcover)
Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
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Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life
context and drawing on the empirical data available from the
increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a
novel examination of the human rights implications of the
prohibition on assisted suicide in England and Wales and beyond.
Assisted suicide is a contentious topic and one which has been the
subject of judicial and academic debate internationally. The
central objective of the book is to approach the question of the
ban's compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights
afresh; freed from the constraints of the existing case law and its
erroneous approach to the legal issues and selective reliance on
empirical data. The book also examines the compatibility of the ban
on assisted suicide with rights which have either been erroneously
disregarded or not considered by either the domestic courts or the
European Court of Human Rights. Having regard to human rights
jurisprudence more broadly, including in the context of abortion,
the research and analysis undertaken here demonstrates that the ban
on assisted suicide violates the rights of a significant number of
individuals to life, to freedom from torture or inhuman or
degrading treatment and to private life. Such analysis does not
depend on a strained or contrived approach to the rights at issue.
Rather, the conclusions flow naturally from a coherent, logical
application of the established principles governing those rights.
While the focus of the book is the Suicide Act 1961, the
conclusions reached have implications beyond England and Wales,
including for the other devolved jurisdictions and international
jurisdictions. Beyond courts and legislators, it will be a valuable
resource for students of human rights and medical law, as well as
medical and legal practitioners and academics working in human
rights and end-of-life care.
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