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Why can a patient not, if they want, sit in on the decision-making process on whether they are allowed to live or die, so that they can then appeal against decisions from an informed position?
The AHLRG saw sense in allowing secure tenancies to die out gradually and over time through conversion and other means—through natural wastage, if you like—which would have allowed the introduction of dynamic new letting vehicles.
It is up to the committee whether it nonetheless wants to refer the petition to the Rural Affairs and Environment Committee. I am not going to die in the sand over this. If members want to refer the petition to the Rural Affairs and Environment Committee, that is fine.
The cost will depend on the sort of metal and the die that is cast. The question that I ask in return is this: What price would you put on the ultimate sacrifice?
David Liddell, director of the Scottish Drugs Forum, claims:“if you look at the rate of drug-related deaths compared to the overall population, Scottish people are seven times more likely to die from a drug-related death than their European counterparts.”That is not the road to recovery.
Since I started my campaign, 130 lives have been lost and, shockingly, 780 lives have been lost since Labour came to power in 1997. How many more people have to die before Westminster sees sense on the issue?
Lord Hope has commented that the Supreme Court should determine the convention right and that the High Court of Justiciary should then apply that law to particular circumstances, and his argument carries a great deal of force.I am not wedded to the provision, and some compelling arguments have been made for changing it. I would not die in a ditch over it—fa...
The mortality figures bear Mr Morgan out: the poor die young. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, the life expectancy of a child born in Calton in Glasgow is 28 years less than that of a child born just a few miles away in Lenzie.