HESA 6305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Culpable Homicide, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Section 1 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Health Administration
• Course: HESA 6305
• Professor: Persaud

Document Summary

Life support and assisted suicide cases - summaries. Decision: consent is needed for positive treatment/intervention because it involves touching the patient, but there is no need for a consent from anyone for a physician to refrain from intervening a pvs. Decision: court decided to extend the injunction, court found that there were material and non-frivolous issues of law for trial, does the charter require the continuation of treatment? (the. Dnr order in lavallee: before concluding its judgment, the court noted a special consideration; namely, patients who disagree with their doctors should have the right to have the disagreement addressed by an appropriate mediator. *this was decided under ontario(cid:495)s health care consent act, not the common law (ns does not have the same legislative provisions. Columbia (attorney general) narrowly rejected sue rodriguez(cid:495)s claim to a right to a physician(cid:495)s assistance in ending her life: gloria taylor was one of the parties; she had als and wanted the.