Griffith Richard
Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University.
Br J Community Nurs. 2017 May 2;22(5):252-254. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2017.22.5.252.
A man with motor neurone disease has been granted permission by the Court of Appeal to seek judicial review the criminalisation of assisted dying under the Suicide Act 1961, section 2(1). In this article, Richard Griffith reviews the Court of Appeal's decision in R (on the application of Conway) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] and considers arguments for and against decriminalising assisted dying.
一名患有运动神经元疾病的男子已获得上诉法院的许可,对1961年《自杀法》第2(1)条将协助自杀定为刑事犯罪的规定进行司法审查。在本文中,理查德·格里菲斯回顾了上诉法院在R(康威申请案)诉司法大臣[2017]一案中的判决,并考虑了支持和反对将协助自杀合法化的论据。