Lord Falconer has finally announced that his long awaited assisted suicide bill will be tabled in the House of Lords on Wednesday 15 May.
A 59-year-old Irish woman today lost her Supreme Court challenge to the ban on assisted suicide.
Lord Falconer's announcement that he is about to introduce a new bill into the House of Lords to legalise assisted suicide along the lines of the Oregon model - assisted suicide for mentally competent adults who have less than six months to live.