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He added that, while the former situation could be lawful, the latter situation where a doctor gives a patient a drug in order to hasten his death was clearly unlawful.
10.2.2 The doctrine of double effect In the case of R v Cox (1992) 12 BMLR 38 below the court explained that, where a drug has no therapeutic value and where it leads to a patient’s death, the prescribing of the
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