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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 will hear oral arguments on this request starting January 11, 2016.

Robert Leckey, Faculty of Law, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥

“There 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.â€
— 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 [dot] leckey [at] mcgill [dot] ca (English, French)

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