Terminally ill lawyer Lecretia Seales has reached a confidentiality agreement with the attorney-general over part of her evidence in her case to clarify the law on assisted dying.
Three “interveners” – two interest groups and the Human Rights Commission – have been allowed to take part in the case, and their role was further defined after a hearing in the High Court at Wellington on Wednesday.
Seales is asking the High Court at Wellington to clarify whether a doctor would be committing a crime if he or she were to help her to die. Continue reading