{"id":635,"date":"2008-10-30T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T07:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2008-10-30T08:51:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T07:51:32","slug":"no-guidance-to-be-given-on-dpp-discretion-on-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"No guidance to be given on DPP discretion on assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-637\" style=\"width:180px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/purdy_debbie1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/purdy_debbie1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Debbie Purdy<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Debbie Purd, the multiple sclerosis sufferer, failed in High Court bid to know how far her husband Omar Puente can go in helping her to take her own life.<\/p>\n<p>Her attempt to obtain advance guidance from the Director of Public Prosecutions on how he would exercise his discretion in such cases was comprehensively dismissed yesterday, despite being argued by the leading human rights lawyer David Pannick QC.<br \/>\nThe decision is to be appealed.<\/p>\n<p>Full report, <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/law\/article5042489.ece\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Purdy Debbie Purd, the multiple sclerosis sufferer, failed in High Court bid to know how far her husband Omar Puente can go in helping her to take her own life. Her attempt to obtain advance guidance from the Director of Public Prosecutions on how he would exercise his discretion in such cases was comprehensively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}