MP vote to scrap Judge Sign-off in Assisted Dyeing Bill

The need to approve the dying applications aided for a High Court judge has been demolished by the committee considering the Bill.

The section was manipulated as a security by supporters of the bill, which made it such strict laws in the world.

But the Ministry of Justice and senior judges expressed concern about the impact on the courts.

Labor MP Kim Leadbatter, who is bringing the bill, suggested replacing the role of High Court judges with a three-person panel, characterizing a senior legal person, a psychiatrist and a social worker who is to review the applications.

The committee is expected to include those details in the latter stage.

After the Bill Committee polled 15 to seven in favor of leaving the role of a judge of the High Court, the leadbatter said the change would make the law “stronger”.

“And it is much more secure than the current ban on assisted dyeing, which leaves sick people and their families without any security,” he said.

“I have been encouraged that during this debate, there are positive reactions to the proposal of a commissioner and a multi-disciplinary panel of a committee colleagues, whether they (its) vote in another reading.

“It tells me that whatever our views on Bill are, it is a shared commitment to get protection for the rightly sick adults. This means that we are doing our work.”

Although a group of 26 of his fellow Labor MPs warned that scrapping the High Court inspection “breaks the promises made by the supporters of the bill, weakens security for fundamentally weaker people and shows how the entire process has taken place”.

In a statement, the group – almost completely made up of MPs, who voted against the bill in the second reading – said: “It does not increase judicial security measures, but makes an unacceptable quango and otherwise to claim what is proposed.”