Tag: Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice
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I-CONnect Symposium: The Italian Constitutional Court on Assisted Suicide—The Italian Constitutional Court and the Recent Decision on Assisted Suicide: The Guardian of the Constitution or the “Guardian” of the Parliament?
[Editor’s Note: This is Part I of our I-CONnect symposium on the Italian Constitutional Court’s recent judgment on assisted suicide. The Introduction is available here.] —Benedetta Vimercati, Research Fellow in Constitutional Law, University of Milan As soon as the press release announcing the Italian Constitutional Court’s decision on assisted suicide had been made available, certain spur of the moment comments arose depicting the Court as a modern Pontius Pilate.