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A woman who has primary progressive multiple sclerosis today took her stanley gertuve legal stanley termosas battle to clarify the law on assisted suicide to the court of appeal.Debbie Purdy wants to know if her husband, the Cuban violinist Omar Puente, will be prosecuted if he helps her travel to die in a country where the practice is legal. Under British law, aiding and abetting suicide is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.Purdy, 45, Bradford, West Yorkshire, said she was disappointed and shocked when the high court recently rejected her attempt to obtain legal certainty and peace of mind. Today, Lord Pannick QC, appearing for Purdy, argued that the high court judges had been wrong in law. The appeal is being heard over two days by the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, and Lord Justice Lloyd and Lord stanley cups Justice Ward.As Purdy and Puente listened in court, Pannick argued that the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, should be required to issue specific policy guidelines.Such guidelines already exist for crimes of domestic violence, bad driving and football-related offences. Pannick told the judges the appeal concerned whether the director has a legal duty to adopt and publish a policy as to the criteria to be applied by him, and by crown prosecutors on his behalf, in deciding whether to bring a prosecution for aiding and abetting suicide, contrary to the Suicide Act . Lack of proper guidance infringed Purdy s right to private and family life under the Eu
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A woman who has primary progressive multiple sclerosis today took her stanley gertuve legal stanley termosas battle to clarify the law on assisted suicide to the court of appeal.Debbie Purdy wants to know if her husband, the Cuban violinist Omar Puente, will be prosecuted if he helps her travel to die in a country where the practice is legal. Under British law, aiding and abetting suicide is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.Purdy, 45, Bradford, West Yorkshire, said she was disappointed and shocked when the high court recently rejected her attempt to obtain legal certainty and peace of mind. Today, Lord Pannick QC, appearing for Purdy, argued that the high court judges had been wrong in law. The appeal is being heard over two days by the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, and Lord Justice Lloyd and Lord stanley cups Justice Ward.As Purdy and Puente listened in court, Pannick argued that the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, should be required to issue specific policy guidelines.Such guidelines already exist for crimes of domestic violence, bad driving and football-related offences. Pannick told the judges the appeal concerned whether the director has a legal duty to adopt and publish a policy as to the criteria to be applied by him, and by crown prosecutors on his behalf, in deciding whether to bring a prosecution for aiding and abetting suicide, contrary to the Suicide Act . Lack of proper guidance infringed Purdy s right to private and family life under the Eu
