UK News: The Telegraph, which first reported Truss’s stance, also said Theresa May and Boris Johnson were against the bill
In her Today programme interview Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who tabled the assisted dying bill rejected claims from a former lord chief justice that the legislation is flawed because it does not explain how judges would deal with hearings where they would have to decide whether or not to approve an assisted dying application.
Asked about the comments from Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd in an interview on the same programme yesterday, Leadbeater said:
Judges do these sorts of cases in other very delicate matters all the time. So they look at things like turning off life support machines for terminally ill people.
So this is not going to be, it will be a new area of work for judges, but they are used to making these difficult and complex decisions and being part of this process. Continue reading…
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