View source for R (Purdy) v DPP (2009) UKHL 45

''(1) The prohibition of assisted suicide in section 2(1) [[Suicide Act 1961]] interfered with the claimant's [[Article 8]](1) right to respect for private life (her personal autonomy and right to self-determination). (2) This interference - in cases of the suicide of a person who is terminally ill or severely and incurably disabled, who wishes to be helped to travel to a country where assisted suicide is lawful and who, having the capacity to take such a decision, does so freely and with a full understanding of the consequences - is not "in accordance with the law" as required by article 8(2), in the absence of an offence-specific policy by the DPP which sets out the factors that will be taken into account in deciding under s2(4) whether to prosecute. (3) Therefore the DPP was required to promulgate such an offence-specific policy.''

==Related judgments==
[[R (Purdy) v DPP (2009) UKHL 45]]
*[[R (Purdy) v DPP (2009) EWCA Civ 92]]

==ICLR==
{{ICLR|R (Purdy) v DPP (2009) UKHL 45}}

==See also==
The [[Assisted suicide]] page contains links relating to the interim guidance published by the DPP in response to this judgment.

==External links==
{{#bailii:[2009] UKHL 45}}

[http://www.lawreports.co.uk/WLRD/2009/HLPC/R_(Purdy)_v_Director_Pub_Prosecutions.html ICLR] [2009] WLR (D) 271

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8177343.stm BBC News: MS woman wins right-to-die fight, 30/7/09]


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