Britain: Appeal of Purdy decision launched

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Today, December 7, is the last day that the Debbie Purdy ruling (requiring the DPP to prepare guidelines on the prosecution of assisted suicide) can be appealed.

An appeal is backed by the Christian Legal Centre, and will be filed by Alison Davis, who claims that a legal ruling that forced the change was unsound, alleging the "apparent bias" of one of the judges, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, now the Supreme Court's president, who later expressed strong personal views on the subject in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

In a letter to Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, wheelchair-bound Miss Davis, who suffers from spina bifida, hydrocephalus, emphysema, osteoporosis and arthritis, said the proposed changes were "fatally discriminatory".

[Note: Some other recent stories related to this topic are in the Links: section below.]

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Hope, Christopher. "Assisted suicide: disabled campaigner in 11th hour court challenge". Telegraph. Published: 7:00AM GMT 07 Dec 2009. <www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6729832/Assisted-suicide-disabled-campaigner-in-11th-hour-court-challenge.html>. Telegraph, Victory House, Meeting House Lane, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TT. (c) Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2009

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Tags (or keywords) briefly indicate some major topics of the report.

  • assisted suicide

  • Debbie Purdy

  • House of Lords

  • prosecution

  • judicial decision

  • Keir Starmer

  • Britain

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Mailed: Monday, December 7, 2009 14:12:01 -0600
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