Policymakers in the U.K. Parliament are considering whether to replace the requirement for a high court judge to adjudicate ...

MP behind Bill refuses to say whether those seeking assistance to end lives to ease financial pressures on relatives would be ...

New Hampshire could soon become the 11th U.S. state to legalize assisted suicide as lawmakers debate the so-called New ...

Kim Leadbeater’s proposed new safeguard for her assisted dying Bill reflects the approach she has brought to the whole debate ...

The MP behind the assisted dying Bill made a key change to her legislation after being warned by the Ministry of Justice that it could clog up the courts, it emerged on Wednesday ...

Ashfield MP Lee Anderson (Ref) has announced that he intents to vote against the Assisted Dying Bill currently going through Parliament, despite initially supporting the Bill in the first and second ...

Yesterday’s announcement that a key safeguard, scrutiny of a high court judge, would be scrapped is not just deeply worrying ...

Sir Keir Starmer says he wants to close a "loophole" that allowed a Palestinian family the right to remain in the UK after ...

Lowestoft MP Jess Asato is among 10 Labour MPs who issued a strongly-worded statement criticising a move which would replace a High Court judge’s oversight of the process with an expert panel ...

Having nursed many patients, as well as my late husband, the writer Jeremy Clarke, in their last days, I have great ...

Politicians across the Commons who had previously backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill said they were now thinking again amid an angry backlash.

Back to the assisted dying bill. It has emerged that the legislation’s requirement for a senior judge to approve whether someone should be allowed to end their life has been removed over ...