Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG)
Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG) [1993] 3 S.C.R. 519 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision where the prohibition of assisted suicide was challenged as contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by a terminally ill mother, Sue Rodriguez. In a 5 to 4 decision, the Court upheld the provision in the Criminal Code.
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Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG)
Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG) [1993] 3 S.C.R. 519 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision where the prohibition of assisted suicide was challenged as contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by a terminally ill mother, Sue Rodriguez. In a 5 to 4 decision, the Court upheld the provision in the Criminal Code.
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Rodriguez v British Columbia ( ...... rovision in the Criminal Code.
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Rodriguez v British Columbia
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[1993] 3 SCR 519, 107 DLR 342, 1993 CanLII 75
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1993-09-30
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Sue Rodriguez v The Attorney G ...... ey General of British Columbia
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1993-05-20
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On appeal from the Court of Appeal for British Columbia
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L'Heureux-Dubé J
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La Forest, Gonthier, Iacobucci and Major JJ.
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Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s.7
Criminal Code, s.241
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Carter v Canada (AG), 2015 SCC 5
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Criminal prohibition of assisted suicide does not violate the Charter.
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Appeal dismissed
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Rodriguez v British Columbia ( ...... rovision in the Criminal Code.
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Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG)
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