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Criminal law—Suicide

03 November 2017
Issue: 7768 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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R (on the application of Conway) v Secretary of State for Justice (Humanists UK and others intervening) [2017] EWHC 2447, [2017] All ER (D) 22 (Oct)

The blanket ban on assisted suicide in the Suicide Act 1961, s 2 did not constitute a disproportionate and incompatible interference with the right of respect for private life, under Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Accordingly, the Divisional Court refused the claimant’s application for a declaration of incompatibility, and held that R (on the application of Pretty) v Director of Public Prosecutions ([2002] 1 All ER 1) and R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v Director of Public Prosecutions ([2014] 3 All ER 843) were not binding.

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