Quick post in response to the Lords ruling in Debbie Purdy's application for judicial review (see news report here, and judgment here).
Whatever side of the divide one falls on regarding the issue of legalising euthanasia, the clarification of the law which will now result from the DPP publishing guidance on the criteria which will be applied in exercising the discretion of whether or not to prosecute those who help a loved one travel to Switzerland to die with the Dignitas organisation can only be a good thing.
Legal certainty is a principle of core importance in all legal systems which hope to function effectively and in anything approaching a fair manner. To leave such an important matter unclarified and wholly contingent would be a situation befitting a 3rd world legal system, rather than an advanced one such as that of the United Kingdom.
So I, for one, am glad that the Lords ruled in this manner on this point of Purdy's judicial review.
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