A proposed revamp of how the Department of Health logs and provides birth and death certificates has roiled researchers.

Do assisted dying cases need a High Court judge? Plus Thatcher's legacy, 50 years on. Gordon Smart sits in Do assisted dying ...

Assisted dying cases would no longer have to be signed off by the High Court under changes suggested by the bill's supporters ...

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Kim Leadbeater suggests allowing psychiatrists and social workers to approve applications under new amendments ...

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts will rule today on Karen Read's​ appeal to get some charges dismissed.

Under changes to a proposed bill, expert panels could now approve assisted dying requests rather than High Court judges.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man previously sentenced to death for the 2012 murder of his brother, sister-in-law ...

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is proposing a change to the assisted dying bill that means cases would not require sign off from a High Court judge.