Ken MacDonald

Not enough evidence for assisted suicide charges says DPP

In his last interview as Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald says there is no policy of not prosecuting people for helping others to take their lives. Also Muslims should know that new religious hatred laws offer...

Sir Ken Macdonald: the QC who came to the prosecutors’ defence

He has been an outspoken and robust holder of the post. So Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, was unlikely to end with a whimper. True to form, his final speech just days ago was a forceful attack on ministers’ plans for a new super...

Debbie Purdy deserves a less terrible choice

Parliament must legalise assisted dying and not be deflected by the small minority who refuse a calm debate There can be no better evidence of the urgent need to change the law on assisted dying than the ruling made yesterday...

Judges call for Parliament to review rules on assisted suicide

A terminally ill woman who wants her husband to help her die lost her landmark legal bid to clarify the law on assisted suicide but welcomed a High Court ruling that suggested Parliament should review the issue.

Law change call after MS victim's plea on help to die

Published Date: 30 October 2008 THE government was under increasing pressure last night to change the law on assisted suicide after a multiple sclerosis sufferer lost her landmark bid to clarify current legislation. Debbie...

MS sufferer to appeal against assisted suicide ruling

A WOMAN suffering from multiple sclerosis said she was "disappointed and shocked" today after losing her landmark legal bid to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Ms Purdy, 45, from Undercliffe, Bradford, West Yorkshire, wants...

Landmark High Court judgement on assisting suicides

A terminally ill woman who wants her husband to help her die will find out how far he can assist her without being prosecuted in a landmark legal judgement expected today. Debbie Purdy, who suffers from a progressive form of...

MS sufferer loses legal battle over assisted suicide law

A WOMAN suffering from multiple sclerosis today lost her landmark legal bid to clarify the law on assisted suicide. She listened as two senior judges rejected her High Court application for a ruling to force the Director of...

Prison fear for relatives who assist suicide

Court battle may force prosecutors to take tough line in right to die cases Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy shares a kiss with her husband Omar Puente outside the high court. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Prosecutors...

Bigger databases increase risks, says watchdog

The proliferation of ever larger centralised databases is increasing the risk of people's personal data being lost or abused, the government's official privacy watchdog claims today.The warning from the information...