Professor Penney Lewis:

Yes, I think the Deputy is right. Article 8 is engaged in this context so that the patient's right to bodily integrity and self-determination would be engaged in the context of a law that prohibits access to assisted dying or assisted suicide. In the cases that have gone to the Strasbourg court, the governments have been successful in justifying that engagement under Article 8.2 in order to protect the rights and freedoms of others.