You cannot frame a law that will wriggle like an eel around all the possible complications of the question.
It is perfectly possible to frame a law that allows suffering people who are close to death to die quickly and peacefully, if they wish, without declaring open season on old folk.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] matter of life and deathSIR – Your leader on assisted suicide assumes that it is "perfectly possible to frame a law that allows suffering people who are close to death to die quickly and peacefully, if they wish" ("Going gently", July 18th).
The best interpretation of which was that the government was trying to frame a law that encouraged tech platforms to eschew the use of strong encryption in order not to risk falling outside the scope of an unclear law.
Richmond did not fuss about framing a new law, but just went ahead and fined Miss Blossom Browning $25.
We want no kind of war, but international law on sharing water is unsure and we would request the UN to frame a new law.
Here's the judiciary committee of the US Senate trying to frame a "shield law" that will give reporters some protection when government and its agencies seek to bug, arrest or demand to know sources.
One of post-colonial India's great achievements, argues the activist Vandana Shiva, was to frame a patent law in 1970, which recognised that there were issues of human welfare and development that must take precedence over profit, particularly in the areas of food and health.
But writing in Forced Migration Review, Mahendra P Lama, associate professor at the school of international studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, outlined three reasons why India doesn't want to acknowledge IDPs and frame a law.
With the benefit of hindsight, some advocates said they would have been better off framing the law more explicitly as a tax, although doing so would have been politically explosive.
