The need for judges to approve assisted dying cases risks being a “rubber stamping” exercise that does not provide an adequate safeguard, former senior judges have warned, as MPs prepare to vote on the controversial measure this week.
Under the proposed legislation, two doctors must approve a terminally ill person’s request to end their life, and a High Court judge must sign off their decision after talking to one of the medics.
But retired senior judges have questioned the protections in the bill, and criticised the decision to use judicial sign-off as an attempt to bestow legitimacy on a process that judges would have very little real involvement with.
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