"I am not sure what further guarantees the noble Baroness and the noble Lord have in mind, because they will know from the Bill that Schedule 3 amends the Employment Rights Act 1996. It incorporates that anybody who is being prejudiced against because they will not participate in terminal illness …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
What more could one do to give protection to doctors? Beyond saying that there will never be a duty to raise it or to participate, I cannot think of what wording there could be...." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"Yes, there can be no duty to raise a question of assisted dying if an Act of Parliament says that there is no duty to raise it. That case, the Montgomery case and the normal negligence cases do not in any way lurk in the background waiting to, as it …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"We have discussed this before and the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, is right. He is referring to the 2006 Act—not the noble Lord’s Act but the one before it—which says that the obligation of the National Health Service is to provide treatment and care. There is then a question of …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"May I say that the noble Baroness puts it brilliantly? Here is a range of treatments, or—deleting “treatments”—here is a range of things that can be done. One of them is assisted dying. The worry that the noble Baroness expresses is that if it is a thing that can be …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"In relation to a porter, for example, a porter cannot be required to be in the room or helping in—I said Clause 26 but I meant Clause 25, which is in relation to the provision of assistance; I apologise for that. The noble Lord has given an example of a …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"Can I go on for a bit? I will come back at the end if there is time, but let us keep going.
Next, on the register, I think Amendment 189 from the noble Baroness, Lady Fraser, is trying to do two things. First, it is trying to have some …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"The precise knowledge of who does it, where the list is kept, who registers with whom—for example, whether they register with the commissioner—is about detailed implementation, and I am strongly of the view that we should not try to get into the nitty-gritty in relation to that in the Bill. …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"I am very grateful to the noble Lord for his assistance in relation to this matter. As far as I am concerned, precisely how one identifies who is available to do it should be worked out in the implementation because it goes to publicity and to what is the most …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech
"I am sorry; I stand corrected. What I was getting at was that they should not feel that they have to separate themselves. If I wanted an assisted death, at home, I would like to think that the people caring for me would still be available to me up until …..." Lord Falconer of Thoroton - View Speech