Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 07/19/2012

Subject: The decision on the refusal of the German authorities to examine the application of Mr Koch's wife, who, being almost completely paralysed, committed suicide in Switzerland after having tried with no result to acquire a lethal dose of a medication, which would have enabled her to commit suicide in Germany

Parties: Koch c. Germania

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Justice - Art. 47 Justice: remedy