R (Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions – WLR Daily

Posted October 31st, 2008 in assisted suicide, law reports, prosecutions by sally

R (Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions [2008] EWHC 2565; [2008] WLR (D) 337

“The Director of Public Prosecutions did not act unlawfully in failing to publish detailed guidance as to the circumstances in which individuals would or would not be prosecuted under s 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 for assisting another person to commit suicide.”

WLR Daily, 30th October 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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