Assisted Suicide in United Kingdom

Prosecutors in the UK are preparing to issue guidelines for pressing charges under the country’s assisted suicide ban.  Meanwhile, the country’s chief judge recently suggested that it would be hard to make the law more favorable to those who oppose the ban.

Charges have been pressed for violating the law within the country; however, no citizens have been prosecuted for assisting a suicide outside the country.

See Martin Bentham, Chief judge: it will be hard to change law on assisted suicides, Evening Standard, Sept. 11, 2009.

Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.