Nigel Biggar

Articles on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

  • Should judges decide on the right to die?

    In an 8 October 2018 letter to The Times newspaper, Nigel Biggar offered an incisive response calling into question Baroness Mallalieu’s insistence that the courts rather than parliament is the proper locus for the adjudication of the public right to assisted dying. See the Letters to the Editor here. For more information on the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill…

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  • An Exchange on Assisted Suicide

    Following a recent decision by the High Court rejecting a challenge by Noel Conway to change the law on assisted suicide (a decision influenced by Parliament’s rejection of a bill on assisted suicide in June 2015), The Times has published an exchange of letters on the nature and ethics of assisted suicide: Prof Nigel Biggar’s letter of April 1 elicited a response from…

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