Patients' Rights

Seriously ill patients and family members urge the B.C. Supreme Court to allow for the right to die with dignity
Plaintiffs in the BCCLA’s death with dignity case head to the B.C. Supreme Court tomorrow to challenge the laws that make it a crime for physicians to assist seriously and incurably ill people to die with dignity. It will be the first day of oral argument in the case.
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November 30, 2011

Woman with ALS asks court for legal right to die with dignity
Nearly two decades after Sue Rodriguez fought for the right to die with dignity, another British Columbia woman with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has come forward to ask the court for choice in dying. Today, Gloria Taylor filed an application with the BC Supreme Court asking to be added as a plaintiff in the BCCLA’s death with dignity lawsuit. Gloria, 63, of Westbank, BC, is terminally ill with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease with no known cure or effective treatment.
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June 28, 2011

BCCLA launches lawsuit to challenge criminal laws against medically-assisted dying
The BCCLA filed a lawsuit today to challenge the laws that make it a criminal offense to assist seriously and incurably ill individuals to die with dignity. The legal challenge will seek to allow mentally competent adults, who are suffering from serious illnesses that cannot be remedied, the right to receive medical assistance to hasten death under certain specific safeguards.
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Apr 26, 2011

Modernization”, “Re-balancing” and “States of Exception”: the Multi-Pronged Attack on Fundamental Patient Rights
A talk given by Micheal Vonn >>
January 2011

LAW REFORM

2002 Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding the review of the mental disorder provisions of the Criminal Code.

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