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This lack of a requirement to explain complications is also contrary to what has been generally established as the law since 2015, as noble Lords have explained, in the Montgomery v Lanarkshire case. The law generally requires that all material risks of any course of action are explained to the patient so that they can make their decisions. In my experience, this has always happened, even to the point of consultants saying, “You know, this means you could die”. Moreover, a requirement of the sort imposed by my amendment is a feature of assisted regulation elsewhere, and we have heard about that, but the laws of Oregon, California and Victoria require all patients to be informed of the potential risks of taking the substances in question—it is quite precise—as part of the process of consent to assisted suicide.