{"id":812,"date":"2009-02-20T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2009-02-20T08:30:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T08:30:01","slug":"prosecutions-in-assisting-suicide-cases-more-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutions in assisting suicide cases more unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, who suffers from primary progressive MS, lost her case in the<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-814\" style=\"width:128px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/purdy_debbie21.jpg\" alt=\"purdy_debbie21\" width=\"128\" height=\"78\" \/>\r\n\t<div>purdy_debbie21<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Court of purdy_debbieAppeal when the judges said the law, which makes it a criminal office punishable by up to 14 years in prison would apply in her case.<\/h3>\n<p>Purdy wants her husband, Omar Puente to accompany her to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland &#8211; where assisted suicide is not illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge said that &#8220;Ms Purdy and Mr Puente know perfectly well that &#8230; if he were to assist her suicide, he would be contravening the criminal law &#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lord Judge went on to say that it is not part of the court&#8217;s function to enter into the debate about the issue, it is for parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The case has made it clearer that criminal sanctions are unlikely in cases such as Purdy&#8217;s, which has quickly followed the case of Daniel James, the 23-year-old, injured in a rugby accident, who ended his life at Dignitas.<\/p>\n<p>Times report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2009\/feb\/20\/assisted-suicide-law\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, who suffers from primary progressive MS, lost her case in the purdy_debbie21 Court of purdy_debbieAppeal when the judges said the law, which makes it a criminal office punishable by up to 14 years in prison would apply in her case. Purdy wants her husband, Omar Puente to accompany her to [&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-812","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\/812","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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}