16 Jun 2020
HOSPICE NEW ZEALAND v ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2020] NZHC 1356
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1356
- Court
- High Court
The Court granted narrow declaratory relief on non‑fact dependent points of statutory interpretation: (1) the EOLC Act does not require hospices/organisations to provide assisted dying and organisations may choose not to offer those services; (2) s 8 conscientiously protects individual health practitioners (natural persons) who are otherwise obliged under the Act, but does not itself create an express institutional right that displaces individual obligations; (3) public funding decisions are lawfully for funders and any unlawful withdrawal of funding is susceptible to judicial review rather t…