R (Pretty) v DPP

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL,LORD STEYN,LORD HOPE OF CRAIGHEAD,LORD HOBHOUSE OF WOODBOROUGH,LORD SCOTT OF FOSCOTE, LORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL
Judgment Date29 November 2001
Neutral Citation[2001] UKHL 61
Date29 November 2001
CourtHouse of Lords
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120 cases
  • Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice; R (on the applicaion of AM) v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 2013
    ...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......
  • Danville Walker v Contractor-General
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 10 April 2013
    ...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......
  • Takamore v Clarke COA CA
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 23 November 2011
    ...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 ......
  • Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim v Government of Malaysia and Another
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
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31 books & journal articles
  • A Right to Assist? Assisted Dying and the Interim Policy
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-1, February 2010
    • 1 February 2010
    ...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’, ......
  • Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Legal Research. A Practitioner's Handbook - 3rd Edition Appendices
    • 30 August 2019
    ...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......
  • Judicial review of executive power : legality, rationality and reasonableness (2)
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Southern African Public Law No. 30-2, January 2015
    • 1 January 2015
    ...(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 ......
  • Horizontal Effect and the Constitutional Constraint
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 74-6, November 2011
    • 1 November 2011
    ...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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