Right to Die in UK Law
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R (Pretty) v DPP
... ... Mrs Pretty claims that she has a right to her husband's assistance in committing suicide and that section 2 of the 1961 Act, if it prohibits his helping and prevents the Director ... ...
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Re T (an Adult) (Consent to Medical Treatment)
... ... THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS ... 1 This appeal is not in truth about the "right to die". There is no suggestion that Miss T. wants to die. I do not doubt that she wants to live and we all hope that she will. This appeal is about ... ...
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McKay v Essex Area Health Authority
... ... Lord Justice Griffiths has come to the conclusion that, though the claims disclosed no reasonable cause of action, the judge was nevertheless right in exercising his discretion not to strike them out and that on that ground the appeal should be dismissed. I have not felt able to agree with him on ... ...
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R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v DPP
... ... 7 Mr Nicklinson's wife, Jane, was then both added (because she contended that she had a claim in her own right) and substituted (in her capacity as administratrix of Mr Nicklinson's estate) as a party to the proceedings, and pursued an appeal to the Court of ... ...
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R (Purdy) v DPP
... ... international law if the defendants were prosecuted in this country as under the territorial principle the courts of this country have a clear right, if not a duty, to prosecute in accordance with our municipal law: "The position as it is under international law is not, however, ... ...
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Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino
... ... By clause 5 they waived claims for maintenance after the marriage was terminated. Clause 6 contained a waiver of the statutory right to a portion of the estate of the first one of them to die. The effect of the agreement was that neither party was to derive any interest in or ... ...
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Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
... ... destroyed (see Professor Ian Kennedy's Paper entitled " Switching off Life Support Machines: The Legal Implications " reprinted in Treat Me Right, Essays in Medical Law and Ethics , (1988)), especially at pp. 351�2, and the material there cited). There has been no dispute on this point in ... ...
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Gregg v Scott
... ... The common law does not compel courts to proceed in such an unreal fashion. I would hold that a patient has a right to a remedy as much where his prospects of recovery were less than 50-50 as where they exceeded 50-50. Perforce the reasoning is lengthy, in parts ... ...
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R (Pretty) v DPP
... ... The Right Honourable Lord Justice Tuckey ... The Right Honourable Lady Justice Hale and ... The Honourable Mr. Justice Silber ... Case No: ... ...
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Re J (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment)
... ... By this I do not mean that the parents could tell the doctors what to do, but they would have the right to withhold consent to treatment, subject to the right of the doctors to apply to make the child a ward of court and to seek the guidance of the ... ...
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