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Case Law [2017] EWCA Civ 275 (12/04/2017)

Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts England and Wales Court of Appeal

Date: 04/12/2017

Subject: The decision of the England and Wales Court of Appeal amends the decision of first instance, which denied Mr Conway, affected by a muscular neurodegenerative disease, the possibility to appeal against the compatibility with the norms of the ECHR of the Suicide Act’s norms, which prohibit euthanasia, in the light of the previous decision of 2014 in the case Nicklinson in which the Supreme Court established that only the Parliament could legislate in details in such matter; although there has not been such amendment, the court of second instance deems necessary to assess the compatibility between national norms and the ECHR and that the case of Mr. Conway is sufficiently detailed and precise to be judged

Parties: R(CONWAY) - and - THE SECRETARY OF STAT E FOR JUSTICE

Original language: English

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy

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