Recent thinking about end of life issues

References 

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2. B (Ms) v An NHS Trust [2002] EWHC 429; [2002] 2 FCR 1.
3. Mental Capacity Act 2005, HMSO.
4. R (On the application of Pretty) v DPP [2002] 1 All ER 1.
5. R (Burke) v GMC [2005] 3 FCR 169.
6. The House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics, 1993.
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8. Somerville M. Death Talk. McGill Queen's University Press; 2001;p. xiv
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14. Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.
15. s.2(1) of the Suicide Act 1962, HMSO.
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35. Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill 2004.
36. R (On the application of Pretty) v DPP [2002] 1 All ER 1, at para 96.