Dr. Andrea Mulligan:

I also referred to the High Court rather than the Supreme Court in Fleming because, as Dr. Casey says, the Supreme Court does not engage with the issues in the way the High Court does. Even though the High Court says there is a right but it can be limited, it still goes into far more detail on the potential abuses. It does advert to some abuses. It is looking at people who do not want to die being coerced and to individuals feeling like a burden and making a decision for that reason. It also adverts to things such as challenges around mental illness and difficulties in assessing pain. It talks about the subjectivity of pain too. Abuse and those kinds of issues are what it was concerned about.