Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts High Court

Date: 03/10/2012

Subject: The High Court rejects the claim lodged by a woman affected by multiple sclerosis on the constitutional illegitimacy of the prohibition of physician-assisted suicide, provided by section 2 of the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act 1993, and on its incompatibility with the norms of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003, applying the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg

Parties: Marie Fleming e Ireland, The Attorney General and The Director of Public Prosecutions

Original language: Irish

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy

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