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Parliamentary Report

June–September 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2015

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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In the Parliamentary report for February to May I wrote that Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill, reintroduced under the new ballot procedure for private Peers' bills, had little chance of becoming law in the current session. As it turned out, that judgment was a little premature, because Rob Marris came first in the Commons ballot for private Members' bills and decided to introduce an Assisted Dying (No 2) Bill in similar terms to Lord Falconer's. In the event, however, when his Bill had its second reading debate on 11 September – the first occasion on which the Commons had had an opportunity to debate the matter since 1997 – it was decisively defeated, by 330 votes to 118.

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Parliamentary Report
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 73 - 77
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2015 

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References

1 Online at <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-cc3/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-what-you-need-to-do>, accessed 21 June 2015; PDF version available at <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/444518/CC3.pdf>, accessed 21 June 2015.

2 Available at <http://www.oscr.org.uk/charities/guidance/draft-charity-trustee-guidance>, accessed 1 October 2015.

3 Available at <https://www.dsdni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/consultations/dsd/accounting-and-reporting-by-charities-consultation.pdf>, accessed 2 October 2015.

4 Available at <http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/09/4223>, accessed 2 October 2015.

5 Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1545/pdfs/uksi_20151545_en.pdf>, accessed 21 July 2015.

6 HL Deb 14 July 2015, col 469.

7 His letter is available at <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464273/2015-09-21-Letter-to-CLAS-re-incense.pdf>, accessed 2 October 2015.

8 Marriages by Non-Religious Belief Organisations: summary of written responses to the consultation and Government response, available at <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388986/marriages-by-non-religious-belief-organisations.pdf>, accessed 2 October 2015.

9 Ibid, para 72.

10 Available at <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/451376/BIS-15-359-consultation-on-devolving-sunday-trading-rules.pdf>, accessed 2 October 2015.

11 Road Traffic Act 1988, s 16(2); Employment Act 1989, ss 11 and 12.

12 The Act received Royal Assent on 26 March.