SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Constitution Act, 1982, Homicide, Fundamental Justice
20 Oct 2016
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Pg 2: lee carter, hollis johnson, william shoichet, british columbia civil liberties association and gloria. Pg 4: constitutional law - criminal code provisions prohibiting physician-assisted dying. Code provisions prohibiting physician-assisted dying infringe s. 7 of canadian charter of rights and freedoms. If so, whether infringement justi able under s. 1 of charter criminal code, r. s. c. Questioning : whether constitutional exemption under s. 24(1) of canadian charter of rights and. Pg 5: section 241(b) of the criminal code says that everyone who aids or abets a person in committing suicide commits an indictable offence, and s. 14 says that no person may consent to death being in icted on them. Together, these provisions prohibit the provision of assistance in dying in canada. After t (taylor) was diagnosed with a fatal neurodegenerative disease in 2009, she challenged the constitutionality of the criminal.
