Assisted suicide and human rights.
The case of R (Pretty) v. Director of Public Prosecutions, gave the House of Lords the opportunity to comment on the issues surrounding the application of the European Convention on Human Rights to the crime of assisted suicide in the case of the terminally ill. A conservative approach was taken in relation to both this issue and indeed in relation to the possibilities of judicial control of the Law Officers of the Crown.
Doherty
Michael
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University of Glamorgen, UK.
Yeates
Victoria
V
D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D012297:Right to Die / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom