R (Purdy) v DPP
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | LORD HOPE OF CRAIGHEAD,LORD NEUBERGER OF ABBOTSBURY,LORD BROWN OF EATON-UNDER-HEYWOOD,BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND,LORD PHILLIPS OF WORTH MATRAVERS |
| Judgment Date | 30 July 2009 |
| Neutral Citation | [2009] UKHL 45 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 30 July 2009 |
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64 cases
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Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice; R (on the applicaion of AM) v DPP
...to determine whether it is in the public interest to prosecute. 24 As a result of the decision of the House of Lords in R (Purdy) v DPP [2009] UKHL 45; [2010] 1 AC 345 , the DPP was required to set out in some detail in a Policy statement the factors which he will take into account whe......
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Fleming v Ireland and Others
...ALBERTA v HUTTERIAN BRETHERN OF WILSON COLONY 2009 SCC 37 R (PRETTY) v DPP 2002 1 AC 800 PRETTY v UK 2002 35 EHRR 1 R (PURDY) v DPP 2010 1 AC 345 2009 3 WLR 403 2009 4 AER 1147 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ART 8(2) EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ART 8(1) PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ......
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AG v Garland
...631, [2004] QB 1418; R v Smith (Wallace) TLR 13/11/1995 and Liangsiriprasert v United States [1991] 1 AC 225 approved - R (Purdy) v DPP [2010] 1 AC 345; Stanton v O'Toole [2000] IESC 36, (Unrep, SC, 9/11/2000); Harris v Wren [1984] ILRM 120; Board of Trade v Owen [1957] AC 602; R (Purdy) v ......
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Petition Of Charles O'neill And William Lauchlan For Judicial Review Of The Prisons And Young Offenders Institutions Rules 2011, Rule 63(8), Etcetera And Answers For The Scottish Ministers
...visits will be arranged [cf. R (Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children intervening) [2010] 1 AC 345]. The supplementary opinion deals with this matter. ...
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1 firm's commentaries
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Euthanasia What is the law in Australia?
...4 For example see the NSW DPP Guidelines, last revised in 2007, at www.odpp.nsw.gov.au. 5 In R (on the application of Purdy) v DPP [2009] UKHL 45. 6 Note the guidelines do not specifically cover euthanasia where the charge is likely to be murder or manslaughter. 7 Crown Prosecution Service ......
30 books & journal articles
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Protecting Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism and the Patient-Protective Argument
...Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. von Eschenbach, 495 F.3d 695 (D.C. Cir. 2007) (en banc). [27] See R v. DPP [2009] UKHL 45 (U.K.) (dealing with a similar fact pattern in the U.K. [28] For more on the ethical and legal issues raised by these two other categories, ......
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Hidden Law‐Making in the Province of Medical Jurisprudence
...from Judge CJ at [153]–[156] (which could possibly also be addressed to theapproach of the House of Lords in R (Purdy) vDPP [2009] UKHL 45).106 Re R [1991] 4 All ER 177; Re W (1992) BMLR 22.107 As set out in Gillick vWest Norfolk and Wisbech AHA n 82 above, discussed below.Jonathan Montgome......
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A Right to Assist? Assisted Dying and the Interim Policy
...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’, available at http://www.cps.gov.uk/consultations/as_index.html,......
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PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION AND THE LEGAL LIMITS IN SINGAPORE
...should be discontinued; or (ii) what charges should be preferred. 171R (on the application of Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions[2010] 1 AC 345 at [54], per Lord Phillips. 172R (on the application of Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions[2010] 1 AC 345 at [59], per Baroness Hale. 1......
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