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Supreme Court on assisted suicide: 6-month extension?
Published: 8 January 2016
In December 2015, the federal government has asked the Supreme Court for a six-month extension to draft new laws on doctor-assisted dying. The Supreme Court聽will hear oral arguments on this request starting聽January 11, 2016.
Robert Leckey, Faculty of Law, 不良研究所
鈥淭here may be pressing reasons for doing so, but extending the deadline as the government has requested is in essence a request to keep violating rights, denying for longer still constitutional justice to a group of vulnerable people who thought they had won in court.鈥�
鈥� Robert Leckey
Robert Leckey is a full professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Law. He teaches constitutional law and family law.
robert.leckey [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)
