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CONSTITUTIONAL EXEMPTION [1 record]

Record 1 2001-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Constitutional Law
  • Penal Law
CONT

The constitutional exemption can be made available to the appellant and others on certain conditions including, inter alia, that the application for an exemption be made to a superior court supported by a certificate from a physician that the person is competent to make the decision to end her own life, that she is or will become physically incapable of committing suicide ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit constitutionnel
  • Droit pénal
CONT

Une exemption constitutionnelle ne peut être accordée que pendant la période de suspension d'une déclaration d'invalidité. Pendant la suspension d'un an, l'exemption est également accordée à toutes les personnes qui sont ou seront physiquement incapables de se donner la mort sans assistance [...]

OBS

Source(s) : Seaboyer, [1991] 2 R.C.S. [Recueil des arrêts de la Cour Suprême du Canada] 577, à la p. 628; Schachter, [1992]; Lexique de la Cour suprême; 27 janvier 1994.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho constitucional
  • Derecho penal
DEF

Circunstancia de exención de la responsabilidad penal por la comisión de un delito (enajenación mental, minoría de edad [...] obrar por fuerza irresistible o miedo insuperable, o con alteración grave de la conciencia de la realidad, y actuar en legítima defensa).

OBS

Si tal circunstancia se produce con todos los requisitos establecidos por la ley, se denomina eximente completa y si carece de alguno de ellos se conoce como eximente incompleta y actúa entonces como atenuante.

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