2021
Walter and Harck v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services
High Court of South Africa
Counsel for the applicants
Constitutional challenge seeking to decriminalise both physician-assisted suicide and physician-assisted euthanasia, brought by Dr Suzanne Walter (palliative-care medical doctor terminally ill with multiple myeloma) and Diethard Harck (motor-neurone disease). The legal team applied for evidence to be heard de bene esse on commission via Zoom — Judge Neels Claassen presiding — to preserve the litigants' testimony in advance of trial.
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