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Reviewing The Supreme Court Of Canada Case

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Analyzing the Supreme Court of Canada Case:
Carter v. Canada (Attorney General)- the Death with Dignity Case
The appellants Lee Carter, Hollis Johnson and Gloria Taylor joined with other appellants to bring the civil claim which is against the prohibition on assisted suicide found in s. 14 and s. 241 (b) of the Criminal Code (Carter, para. 20). The same issue which was brought in Rodriguez v. British Columbia 20 years ago was declared to be constitutional. In this case, ultimately Lee Carter’s appeals succeeded.
The Law Before the Ruling According to s. 14 and s. 214 (b) of the Canada Criminal Code, the law criminalized the person who aids another person to commit suicide and it banned the death inflicted on that person. In short, these provisions did not allow a person to seek a physician-assisted death, regardless of being suffered intolerably from a serious or incurable disease (Carter, para.1).
Questions Before the Court
 Whether the Criminal Code provisions prohibiting physician-assisted dying found in s. 241 (b) violates the claimants’ rights to life, liberty and security (s.7) and rights to equal treatment (s. 15) of the Charter (Carter, para.29, 40).
 Whether the prohibition is justified under s.1 of the Canadian Charter (Carter, para.2).
 Whether the trial judge was bound by stare decisis in Rodriguez (Carter, para.28, 42).
 Whether the prohibition accorded with the principle of fundamental justice (Carter, para. 70).
 Whether the prohibition is rationally

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