R (Pretty) v DPP
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judge | LORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL,LORD STEYN,LORD HOPE OF CRAIGHEAD,LORD HOBHOUSE OF WOODBOROUGH,LORD SCOTT OF FOSCOTE, LORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL |
Judgment Date | 29 November 2001 |
Neutral Citation | [2001] UKHL 61 |
Date | 29 November 2001 |
Court | House of Lords |
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120 cases
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Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice; R (on the applicaion of AM) v DPP
...suicide is hereby abrogated." 19 As Lord Bingham pointed out in R (On the Application of Pretty) v Director of Public Prosecutions [2001] UKHL 61, [2002] 1 AC 800, this decriminalisation of suicide falls short of establishing a right to commit suicide (para.35): "Suicide itself (and with i......
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Danville Walker v Contractor-General
...or on appeal, and judicial review affords the only possible remedy ; R (on the application of Pretty) v Director of Public Prosecutions [2001] UKHL 61, [2002] 1 AC 800 at para [67], and Matalulu, above, at p 736. In Wayte v United States 470 US 598 (1985) at 607, Powell J described the dec......
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Takamore v Clarke COA CA
...Nevertheless, there has been some reluctance to recognise and subsequently uphold the deceased's wishes. Dicta in the House of Lords in R(Pretty) v DPP asserted that the rights guaranteed by art 8 only apply while the individual is alive. According to the House of Lords, a right to private ......
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31 books & journal articles
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A Right to Assist? Assisted Dying and the Interim Policy
...in Law, LLM Programme Leader, University of Sunderland;e-mail: ben.livings@sunderland.ac.uk.1R (on the application of Pretty) vDPP [2002] 1 AC 800; Pretty v United Kingdom(2002) 35 EHRR 1; Purdy vDPP [2009] UKHL 45.2Purdy vDPP [2009] UKHL 45.3 Hereafter referred to as the ‘Interim Policy’, ......
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Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
...98/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 on the legal protection of designs (OJ 1998 L289/28) Diane Pretty Case R (Pretty) v DPP [2001] UKHL 61; [2002] 1 AC 800 Diplock’s Case Re Diplock [1948] Ch 468 Ministry of Health v Simpson [1951] AC 251 Diplomas Direc......
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Judicial review of executive power : legality, rationality and reasonableness (2)
...(HL) paras 30-31. Kostuch v Attorney General of Alberta (1995) 128 DLR (4 ) 440 at 449.99 th[2006] UKPC 20 para 18.100R (Pretty) v DPP [2002] 1 AC 800 (HL) para 67; Matalulu v DPP [2003] 4 LRC 712 at 736.101Per Powell J, Wayte v US 470 US 598 at 607 (1985).102In re Smalley [1995] AC 623 at ......
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Horizontal Effect and the Constitutional Constraint
...judge would, albeit subject to the requirements of‘fit’: n 124 above.156 R (Pretty) vDirector of Public Prosecutions [2001] UHKL 61, [2002] 1AC 800.157 Bellinger vBellinger [2003] UKHL 21, [2003] 2AC 467, applying Goodwin vUnited Kingdom (2002)35 EHRR 447.158 These principles will also exten......
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