Assisted suicide ruling could result in law change


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Johannesburg – If the State’s appeal against the High Court in Pretoria’s ruling allowing a terminally ill cancer patient to commit suicide with a doctor’s help fails, Parliament will have to change legislation to accommodate this, an advocate said on Thursday.

If the Supreme Court of Appeal says the ruling by Judge Hans Fabricius can stand, it could go to the Constitutional Court, said Advocate Elton Hart, of the University of Johannesburg’s Law Clinic.

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