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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The British MS-sufferer who went to court to try to ensure her husband wouldn't be prosecuted if he helped her travel to Switzerland to be euthanised talks to newstatesman.com I was really upset, said Debbie Purdy after judges in the High Court ruled against her. Perhaps it was naïve of me, but I was absolutely convinced we were going to win. Purdy has Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and plans to go to...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
It was, sadly, only too predictable that the judges were not prepared to help Debbie Purdy get the assurance she sought - that her husband would not be prosecuted if he were to accompany her on her last chosen voyage, to the Swiss euthanasia clinic Dignitas to die. If she had not made her plight so public and chosen a legal path to have her wishes granted, I am sure that, when the time came, he could...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Letters: One can well understand the acute disappointment of Debbie Purdy and her husband at losing the case at the high court
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Would you want to control the manner of your own death if you had acquired a disease for which there was no cure and faced a protracted, painful end? It's trickier than you may think. Judges yesterday knocked back Debbie Purdy's application to the high court seeking to protect her husband from prosecution if he ever helped her on her final journey. The judges were sympathetic, but said the law that...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Debbie Purdy went to the Royal Courts of Justice because she was determined that when she died her husband would be there with her to hold her hand. Yesterday, after she was defeated in a landmark legal action on assisted suicide to protect him from prosecution, the terminally-ill MS sufferer said that she now faced travelling to Switzerland alone to commit suicide before she was ready. Two high court...
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Times Online - Guest contributors (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
There can be no better evidence of the urgent need to change the law on assisted dying than the ruling made yesterday by the High Court on the case of Debbie Purdy.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis appealed to Parliament yesterday after losing her landmark attempt to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy, 45, vowed to fight on to the Court of Appeal after failing to win a High Court ruling that the Director of Public Prosecutions must make clear the Crown Prosecution Authority’s policy on assisted suicide.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Where does the law stand after MS sufferer Debbie Purdy lost her High Court battle to clarify legislation on assisted suicide?
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Many people who heard Debbie Purdy’s dignified plea for clarity on whether her husband would be prosecuted if he assisted her suicide have been moved by the reasonableness of her request. Lord Justice Scott Baker said the court could not leave the case without expressing “great sympathy”.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Many people who heard Debbie Purdy’s dignified plea for clarity on whether her husband would be prosecuted if he assisted her suicide have been moved by the reasonableness of her request. Lord Justice Scott Baker said the court could not leave the case without expressing “great sympathy”.
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis today lost her landmark legal bid to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
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Sky News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy has lost her landmark legal bid at the High Court to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
But judges in the High Court show their sympathy for Debbie Purdy the multiple sclerosis sufferer seeking to clarify the law and her husband Omar Puente who wants to know how far he can go in helping her to take her own life.
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The Christian Institute (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Debbie Purdy's bid to have the law on assisted suicide clarified was rejected by the High Court.
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy today lost her landmark legal bid at the High Court to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
