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Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 January 2026

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

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My Lords, I very strongly support what the noble Lord, Lord Deben, said. I would just like to correct something that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, said in his email yesterday, I think. I am extremely anxious to get this Bill through to Third Reading, but I profoundly dislike it, and I never said that I wanted to get it right the way through to the House of Commons. I just wanted to put that right. I doubt the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Harper, that judges would be moving the goalposts. I think he is in a different world from me. Having been a judge, I do not remember ever moving the goalposts; it is only when the law is uncertain that judges, from time to time, have to come to decisions.
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