Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG)

Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG)
Supreme Court of Canada
Hearing: May 20, 1993 Judgment: September 30, 1993
Full case name	Sue Rodriguez v The Attorney General of Canada and the Attorney General of British Columbia
Citations	[1993] 3 SCR 519, 107 DLR (4th) 342, 1993 CanLII 75
Docket No.	23476 [1]
Prior history	On appeal from the Court of Appeal for British Columbia
Ruling	Appeal dismissed
Holding
Criminal prohibition of assisted suicide does not violate the Charter.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer Puisne Justices: Gérard La Forest, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, John Sopinka, Charles Gonthier, Peter Cory, Beverley McLachlin, Frank Iacobucci, John C. Major
Reasons given
Majority	Sopinka J, joined by La Forest, Gonthier, Iacobucci and Major JJ
Dissent	McLachlin J, joined by L'Heureux-Dubé J
Dissent	Lamer CJ
Dissent	Cory J
Laws applied
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s 7 Criminal Code, s 241(b)
Overruled by
Carter v Canada (AG), 2015 SCC 5

Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG), [1993] 3 SCR 519 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision where the prohibition of assisted suicide was challenged as contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ("Charter") by a terminally ill woman, Sue Rodriguez. In a 5–4 decision, the Court upheld the provision in the Criminal Code.