Carter v. Canada (Attorney General)
Courts as Regulators: Assisted Suicide in Canada: HS (Re), 2016 ABQB 121
In Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law, Jerry Mashaw writes of how early in the life of the American republic courts occasionally formed part of the regulatory structure: While Congress left judicial review primarily to common law actions for damages, it provided for access to courts by statute […] Read more
Guidelines and Assisted Suicide
The Irish Supreme Court will shortly deliver its judgment on litigation commenced against the State by Marie Fleming. Ms. Fleming is terminally ill with multiple sclerosis. She has asked the courts to declare unconstitutional Ireland’s prohibition on physician-assisted suicide. At first instance, a very strong three-judge High Court (Kearns P., Carney and Hogan JJ.) upheld […] Read more