The Director of Public Prosecutions, Kier Starmer announced on 'The Andrew Marr Show' (Sunday 20th September 2009) that new guidelines explaining when people are likely to be prosecuted for the offence of assisted suicide under s.2(1) Suicide Act 1961 are likely to be published on Wednesday 23rd September 2009.
You can view Kier Starmer's interview with Andrew Marr at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8265386.stm. A transcript of the interview can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/andrew_marr_show/8265292.stm.
The new guidelines are, of course, being published following the House of Lord's ruling in July (which, incidentally, will go down in history as the last ever judgment handed down by the House of Lords) in the case of R (on the application of Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions [2009] UKHL 45 in which their Lordships held that the Director of Public Prosecutions needed to clarify the circumstances under which he would recommend prosecution for the offence of assisted suicide.
A copy of the Purdy judgment can be found at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldjudgmt/jd090730/rvpurd-1.htm
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