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No Right to Assisted Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2002

John Keown
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Terminally ill with motor neurone disease, Mrs. Diane Pretty wanted her husband to assist her commit suicide. She asked the DPP for an assurance that he would not prosecute her husband. The DPP refused. In proceedings for judicial review she sought an order that the DPP give the undertaking or a declaration that the prohibition on assisted suicide was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Case and Comment
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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , 07 March 2002 , pp. 8 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2002

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