“This is Richard Dawkin’s battle cry in response to the recent High Court rejection of the challenge by locked-in sufferers to the murder and manslaughter laws in this country that have condemned them to an unknowable future of suffering.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The court should not depart from the long established position that voluntary euthanasia was murder unless article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms required that it be recognised as a possible defence to a murder charge under the doctrine of necessity, which was not the case.”
WLR Daily, 16th August 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Lord Justice Toulson, sitting with Mrs Justice Royce and Mrs Justice Macur, has handed down judgment in the case of Tony Nicklinson and that of another ‘locked-in’ syndrome sufferer, ‘Martin’. On all the issues, they have deferred to parliament to take the necessary steps to address the problems created by the current law of murder and assisted suicide.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Two victims of locked-in syndrome, including Tony Nicklinson who has sought to be able to end his ‘dull, miserable, demeaning, undignified and intolerable’ life, have lost their high court battle to die with medical help.”
The Guardian, 16th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Legalising assisted dying does not lead to more people opting to end their lives early, claim academics who have looked at the situation in The Netherlands.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Interest in the ‘locked-in syndrome’ cases currently before the High Court runs high. We posted here on the permission granted to locked-in sufferer Tony Nicklinson to seek an advance order from the court that would allow doctors to assist him to die under the common law defence of necessity.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A a 58-year-old victim of locked-in syndrome has told the high court that a decision not to allow him to be helped to die would condemn him “to a ‘life’ of increasing misery”.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two people with locked-in syndrome who find their lives ‘undignified and intolerable’ are taking their right-to-die pleas to the high court.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Major confrontations between the courts and the government in Britain and the United States are looming. Just this week, the Home Secretary has warned British judges to take account of the views of MPs on foreign offenders who claim the right to family life. But the courts are also poised to rule on the contentious issue of assisted dying, where those who wish to end their own life are seeking new rights.”
BBC Law in Action, 12th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“‘Living wills’ that stipulate exactly how a person wants to die should be drawn up with absolute clarity, a judge has ruled after concluding a 67-year-old man with motor neurone disease had made a ‘valid decision’ to refuse treatment.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man from Wiltshire who has ‘locked-in syndrome’ has asked for an explanation on why he should not be allowed to die.”
BBC News, 16th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Parliament will this week be forced to confront the question of whether people who help loved ones end their lives should escape prosecution. MPs will be asked to vote in support of guidance drawn up by the director of public prosecutions two years ago that distinguishes between compassionate amateur assistance, which is unlikely to result in prosecution, and malicious encouragement, which can carry a maximum 14-year sentence.”
The Guardian, 25th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Recently Halsbury’s Law Exchange (HLE) concluded its student competition by asking the five finalists to provide a video submission on whether or not assisted suicide should be legalised. The videos were all of a high standard and can be viewed on YouYube here.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“A high court judge has ruled that the right-to-die case of a man who can only communicate by blinking and wants his ‘suffering to end’ should be allowed to proceed.”
The Guardian, 12th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge is to rule on whether a case brought by a man with ‘locked-in syndrome’ who wants his ‘suffering to end’ should be allowed to proceed.”
The Guardian, 12th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A severely disabled man with ‘locked-in syndrome’ has urged a judge not to decide to halt his High Court action to let a doctor end his life.”
BBC News, 8th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The General Medical Council is launching its first ever guidelines on assisted suicide.”
BBC News, 6th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Albert Camus famously wrote: ‘there is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.’ However profound a philosophical problem, the question of suicide or, more precisely, assisted suicide is proving quite a legal conundrum.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Lawyers for a stroke victim who wants help to end his life can continue to act on his behalf without fear of prosecution or disciplinary action following a high court ruling.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Suicide Act 1961 changed the law under which it had been a crime for a person to commit suicide.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 26th January 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
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