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Celebrity lawyer discovers new species of mercy killing

Michael Cook | 27 August 2011 | Comments

tags: law, mercy killing, New York, US

The celebrity criminal lawyer who defended Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Jim Bakker, Claus von Bülow and O.J. Simpson has come up with a novel mercy killing defence. Giji Jordan, a millionaire single mother, gave her son Jude a cocktail of drugs in an up-market Manhattan hotel in February last year. Her lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, says that this is not a case of murder, but justifiable altruistic filicide.

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New website gives info on US euthanasia initiatives

Michael Cook | 27 August 2011 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, law, US

A new website opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia brings together useful information about the status the law in the various American states. “Choice is an Illusion” provides up-to-date information about what is happening in the United States

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Sex offenders edge closer to IVF access

Jared Yee | 05 August 2011 | Comments

tags: Australia, IVF, law

Over 50 convicted sex offenders and child abusers may be allowed to have children using IVF after a Victorian Civil and Adminstrative Tribunal ruling last week.

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Oregon senate approves ban on suicide kits

Jared Yee | 17 June 2011 | Comments

tags: law, Oregon, suicide kits

The Oregon House of Representatives has approved a ban on the sale and marketing of suicide kits, a month after senators voted unanimously for a similar bill.

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Rights court sanctions Poland in abortion case

Jared Yee | 12 June 2011 | Comments

tags: abortion, law

The Polish government may have to revise its abortion legislation after an exceptionally tragic case in which a woman carrying a foetus with genetic abnormalities was refused an abortion multiple times.

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Results of trial of Final Exit Network volunteers

Jared Yee | 06 May 2011 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, FEN, law

It is not illegal to commit suicide in Arizona, but helping someone else to commit suicide is. So a Maricopa County Superior Court jury had to determine whether two members of a national organisation had conspired to commit manslaughter in the death of a Phoenix woman.

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US legislators seek ban on chimp experiments

Jared Yee | 28 April 2011 | Comments

tags: animal rights, law

Three US senators have called for medical research on chimpanzees to be banned. The US is the last major industrialised country which still uses the apes for experiments.

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Woman who attempted suicide while pregnant is charged with murder

Jared Yee | 23 April 2011 | Comments

tags: abortion, foeticide, human drama, law, suicide

After her boyfriend betrayed her, Bei Bei Shuai, a 34-year-old pregnant Chinese immigrant living in Indianapolis, ate rat poison to end her misery. She survived, but her baby died of seizures in January, four days after birth

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Hazy end-of-life concepts cloud euthanasia debate

Jared Yee | 07 April 2011 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, law, politics

An authentic public debate on “legalising euthanasia” can only occur after a clear distinction is made between assisted suicide and euthanasia and the refusal, withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining measures, says a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) law academic.

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Surgery on hold as patient appeals competency finding

Jared Yee | 07 April 2011 | Comments

tags: informed consent, law

In March the Montana Supreme Court allowed a woman to appeal a court-ordered hysterectomy.

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Obama replaces controversial “conscience” regulation for healthcare workers

Jared Yee | 05 March 2011 | Comments

tags: conscience, law, Obama

The Obama administration a fortnight ago rescinded most of a federal regulation designed to protect healthcare workers who refuse to provide care on moral or religious grounds.

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No right to assisted suicide, says European Rights Court

Michael Cook | 27 January 2011 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, law, Switzerland

Swiss man denied right to a prescription-only drug

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Helping judges understand neuroscience

Michael Cook | 07 August 2010 | Comments

tags: free will, law, neuroscience

Useful manual for lawyers

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