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Kim Leadbeater MP
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The MP committee scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill has voted to scrap the High Court judge safeguard that would have required a higher level of judicial sign-off.
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The Committee stage of Kim Leadbeater’s deadly assisted suicide bill is proving to be utterly shambolic.
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The change comes after Ms Leadbeater scrapped the requirement to have a High Court judge approve assisted suicide cases.
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Dr Griffiths was one of the few disability experts to appear before the ongoing committee hearing into Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.
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Kim Leadbeater MP has proposed that a panel of “experts” should sign off on assisted suicides instead of High Court judges, having previously stated that judges would safeguard against coercion.
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The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has warned that assisted suicide, if it is legalised, would have “resource implications” for other national health services.