"My Lords, in the previous debate we had an interesting discussion about the importance of face to face. I think the conclusion was that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, should bring forward amendments that would make face to face the default mechanism, while accepting that there would be …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley, has already alluded to the issue of wills, so I will not go to that, but there is another legal precedent, Devon Partnership NHS Trust v the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in 2021, when the High Court ruled that …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"I think the amendment has been proposed with the wording on the Marshalled List and the noble Lord has spoken to it, but he may now wish to withdraw it...." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Lord asked about data. During the Select Committee that was held on Lord Joffe’s Bill on this subject, the Royal College of Pathologists told us in evidence that, at post-mortem, one in 20 people were found to have died from something different to what was written …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"I have looked after thousands and thousands of patients, and I have to say that I have never come across someone who said they wanted to be terminally ill and to have their metastases or whatever. No, people want to live well but accept that death is a natural part …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Baroness has prompted me to return to the point made by my noble friend Lady Cass, because the chance of being right about six months has been estimated at around 48%. It is just plucked out of the air. It depends on the individual, how their …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"I have a short question, if I may. If I heard it right, the noble and learned Lord said that he would bring forward an amendment to put asking the question of why in the Bill. Whereabouts in the Bill does he intend to put it, and when will we …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"When you prescribe a drug for a patient, NICE may have given approval for it, but the side effects, the toxic effects and the interaction with other drugs is not determined by NICE. That is done by the clinician, who must inform the patient. I do not dispute that they …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"That is a very helpful intervention because the evidence from the places that have gone down this road and changed their legislation is that the unassisted suicide rate does not fall. This does not seem to prevent suicides from happening and these amendments are about people having information. With these …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech
"My Lords, this group of amendments is about the process of information giving. The lead amendment, Amendment 39A, is about the person having an understanding.
In any process of giving information, there is no point just giving the information: broadcasting it, if you like. You have to check that the …..." Baroness Finlay of Llandaff - View Speech