In an article in The Sunday Telegraph, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a former President of the Family Division of the High Court, warns of the dangers to vulnerable people of licensing assistance with suicide.
An 'assisted dying' law would be no more than "a line in the sand"
Sunday 15th December 2013 • Permalink • Policy area: The Law
"Laws, like nation states, are more secure when their boundaries rest on natural frontiers", writes Baroness Butler-Sloss
About the author
The Rt Hon Baroness Butler-Sloss of Marsh Green GBE
Baroness Butler-Sloss of Marsh Green was a Judge of the Family Division of the High Court from 1979 to 1988 and President of the Division from 1999 to 2005. From 1988 to 1999 she was the first lady Lord Justice of Appeal. She is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists and Paediatricians and of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Latest News
-
Parliament or the Courts?
Tuesday 25th June 2019
-
Result of the RCP consultation on assisted suicide cannot be taken seriously, say peers
Thursday 21st March 2019
-
Briefing from Oregon: House Bill 2232
Thursday 14th March 2019
-
The RCP Consults on Physician Assisted Suicide: What do the papers have to say?
Thursday 28th February 2019
-
Worcestershire man with MND does not support a change in the law
Thursday 28th February 2019
-
New Zealand Medical Association Opposed to 'Assisted Dying'
Thursday 1st March 2018
Voice your opinion
Get in touch
Become a supporter
Email us at support@livinganddyingwell.org.uk
or click here
to find out more about how to support our work