In our recent email alert regarding Physician Assisted Death, we suggested that the Chambers Justice had found that it was appropriate in applications for exemptions to receive evidence from the physicians who would actually provide the assistance in death. In fact, while she commented on that requirement in the Ontario and B.C. protocols, she was satisfied to grant the application in the absence of such evidence, as she felt that a "flexible" approach to the evidence should be taken. In this case, she did not find it necessary to hear from those physicians.
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