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The Bill follows the UK Supreme Court’s ruling in ‘Steinfeld’.iR (Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development [2018] UKSC 32The court found that sections 1 and 3 of the 2004 Act are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), to the extent they prevent different sex couples from entering into a civil partne...
Nevertheless, the later civil court case of Ross v Lord Advocate (discussed in the section on How the current law may apply to assisted dying) seems to suggest that, in an assisted suicide situation, an independent decision to consume drugs made by a competent adult will break the chain of causation.
R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for International Development (in substitution for the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary) (Respondent)[2018] UKSC 32.
meetingId=15731 [accessed 22 March 2024] Irene Stove representing the Scottish Guidance Association (SGA) argued for adaptable spaces in school buildings so they can be used as sensory rooms or "low arousal rooms" and agreed with Deborah Best that small spaces for pupils to de-stress and de-regulate must be available...