{"id":2734,"date":"2020-12-29T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eoldev.law.dal.ca\/?page_id=2734"},"modified":"2020-12-29T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:55:03","slug":"third-parties-trying-to-prevent-someone-from-accessing-maid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/eol.law.dal.ca\/?page_id=2734","title":{"rendered":"Third parties trying to prevent someone from accessing MAiD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Sorenson was an 83-year-old man who had been found eligible for MAiD. In the summer of 2020, his wife applied to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court to prevent him from accessing MAiD.<br \/>\nThe case wound its way up to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/ns\/nsca\/doc\/2020\/2020nsca62\/2020nsca62.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAAAAAAEAFTIwMjAgTlNDQSA1NiAoQ2FuTElJKQAAAAEACy8yMDIwbnNjYTU2AQHyperlink \u201chere\u201d to: https:\/\/impactethics.ca\/2020\/10\/22\/in-a-nutshell-an-attempted-assault-on-access-to-maid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concluded that<\/a> the courts do not have a role in reviewing MAiD eligibility assessments and that, after a person is found<br \/>\neligible for MAiD, third parties (e.g., family members) cannot go to court to challenge that finding.<\/p>\n<p>A brief discussion of this case is available <a href=\"https:\/\/impactethics.ca\/2020\/10\/22\/in-a-nutshell-an-attempted-assault-on-access-to-maid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Sorenson was an 83-year-old man who had been found eligible for MAiD. 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