Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Supreme Court (Portugal))

Date: 03/15/2021

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court, found the constitutional illegitimacy of the Parliament Decree n. 109/XIV on medically assisted death, on the basis of non-compliance with the principle of certainty of the conditions provided for by article 2(1) in order to deem medically assisted death as not punishable by criminal law, also recalling the norms of the ECHR and the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg

Parties: A., S.A.

Original language: Portuguese

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy

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