Third parties trying to prevent someone from accessing MAiD


Mr. Sorenson was an 83-year-old man who had been found eligible for MAiD. In the summer of 2020, his wife applied to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court to prevent him from accessing MAiD.
The case wound its way up to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal which concluded that the courts do not have a role in reviewing MAiD eligibility assessments and that, after a person is found
eligible for MAiD, third parties (e.g., family members) cannot go to court to challenge that finding.

A brief discussion of this case is available here.