Four British doctors are attempting to take their professional body to the High Court over an assisted suicide survey they believe is illegal.
The doctors, two of whom are Catholic, say they believe the Royal College of Physicians has acted "unfairly and unlawfully" by setting a supermajority of 60 per cent of votes to retain the college's existing opposition to assisted suicide.
The college has said it will adopt a policy of neutrality if the 60 per cent threshold is not met.
But the four doctors said that the threshold would be impossible to meet because there were three questions in the survey instead of two.
