Canada: DWDC challenges court to recognise mental illness as illness
Exemption from assisted dying is against the Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
August 29, 2024
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Netherlands: ruling against supplying ‘Substance X’.
Suicide drug made available so that patients may die at a time of their choosing.
July 17, 2024
Switzerland: Federal court upholds acquittal Exit vice president
This is the second time Pierre Beck is acquitted.
March 14, 2024
Korea: first constitutional appeal is filed
Mr. Lee Myung-sik sought assisted dying in Switzerland, but feared his daughter would be tried.
January 12, 2024
Germany: Federal court to decide on purchase of lethal dose
Thus far all requests have been unsuccessful.
October 28, 2023
Belgium: Doctor will not be prosecuted
While a procedural error, it did not violate the basic conditions of the law.
October 9, 2023
France: ECHR allows Dignitas proceedings against French State
31 seek recognition of the right not to be subject to inhuman treatment.
October 1, 2023
Hungary: 46 year-old lawyer turns to European Court of Human Rights
ALS sufferer argues that current Hungarian ban is a violation of human rights.
October 1, 2023