Assisted Suicide in UK Law

  • R (Pretty) v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Noviembre 2001
    ... ... be sure that he will not be prosecuted under section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 for aiding and abetting her suicide. Asked to undertake that he ... Mrs Pretty, Mr Havers QC was at pains to limit his argument to assisted suicide, accepting that the right claimed could not extend to cover an ... ...
  • R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v DPP
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 Junio 2014
    ... ... state of the law of England and Wales relating to assisting suicide infringes the European Convention on Human Rights , and whether the code ... DPP") relating to prosecutions of those who are alleged to have assisted a suicide is lawful ... 2 The appeals arise out of claims ... ...
  • R (Purdy) v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Julio 2009
    ... ... to travel to Switzerland for the purpose of there committing suicide fall within the scope of section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 ("the 1961 ... A person who was present at the suicide of another and who assisted or encouraged the suicide, was guilty of murder as a principal in the ... ...
  • Rabone and another v Pennine Care NHS Trust
    • Supreme Court
    • 08 Febrero 2012
    ... ... She had been admitted to the hospital as an emergency following a suicide attempt. She was assessed by the hospital as a high risk of a further ... person announces her intention of travelling to Switzerland to be assisted to commit suicide there, this is not, by itself, sufficient to impose an ... ...
  • R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Marzo 1993
    ... ... They inflicted bodily harm on willing victims. Suicide is no longer an offence but a person who assists another to commit suicide ... ...
  • Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
    • House of Lords
    • 04 Febrero 1993
    ... ... At the hearing of the appeal your Lordships were assisted by submissions made by Mr. Anthony Lester Q.C., as amicus curiae ... of this kind, there is no question of the patient having committed suicide, nor therefore of the doctor having aided or abetted him in doing so. It ... ...
  • R (on the application of Conway) v The Secretary of State for Justice
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Junio 2018
    ... ... Act 1998 (“the HRA ”) in respect of section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 (“the 1961 Act”), which imposes a blanket ban on assisted ... ...
  • Re T (an Adult) (Consent to Medical Treatment)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 Julio 1992
    ... ... to clear sputum from her lungs, a process with which the father assisted. Miss T.'s father was anxious as to any complications which might arise ... of the state in protecting innocent third parties and preventing suicide. I agree with the principles set out above although I do not believe an ... ...
  • R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (Attorney General and another intervening) R (AM) v DPP and Others (Same intervening) [DC]
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 13 Noviembre 2012
    ... ... 8 5. Martin would be capable of physically assisted suicide, but this would involve someone else committing an offence under ... ...
  • Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice; R (on the applicaion of AM) v DPP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 Julio 2013
    ... ... 16 •Assisted dying at common law 17 ... Paul Lamb is so disabled that he cannot even commit suicide with assistance; he requires a third party to terminate his life. (That ... ...
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