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June–September 2012
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2012
After the Administrative Court (Toulson LJ, Royce and Macur JJ) had rejected the applications of the late Mr Tony Nicklinson and an anonymous claimant, AM, to allow doctors to end their lives without fear of prosecution, The Times reported that Anna Soubry, Conservative MP for Broxtowe and a newly appointed minister at the Department of Health, was supporting ‘the right to kill yourself’. She was subsequently supported in turn by her Liberal Democrat ministerial colleague Norman Lamb, who told the BBC that, though the issue was one for the individual's conscience and there was no Government policy on it, there was a case for looking at reform. The Ministry of Justice subsequently let it be known that there were no plans to change the existing law.
1 R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice & Ors: R (AM) v DPP & Ors [2012] EWHC 2381 (Admin).
2 For the consultation document, see <http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_MembersBills/Final_version_as_lodged.pdf>, accessed 29 April 2012.
3 Available at <http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Review-of-the-Charities-Act-2006.pdf>, accessed 30 September 2012.
4 Available at <http://publicbenefitconsultation.blogspot.co.uk/p/home.html>, accessed 1 October 2012.
5 See Independent Schools Council v The Charity Commission for England & Wales [2011] UKUT B27 (TCC) (2 December 2011).
6 See <http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/07/same-sex25072012>, accessed 30 September 2012.