TY - JOUR PY - 2002// TI - Recent legal developments JO - Law Teacher A1 - Jefferson, M. A1 - Doherty, M. A1 - Yeates, V. A1 - Johnson, J. A1 - Foster, S. A1 - Richards-Bray, B. SP - 356 EP - 399 VL - 36 IS - 3 N2 - THE CASE of R (Pretty) v. Director of Public Prosecutions, gave the House of Lords the opportunity to comment on the issues surrounding the application of the European Convention on Human Rights to the crime of assisted suicide in the case of the terminally ill. A conservative approach was taken in relation to both this issue and indeed in relation to the possibilities of judicial control of the Law Officers of the Crown. © 2002, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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