Disability campaigners Merv and Nikki Kenward are to appeal the High Court ruling of 4 December that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) acted lawfully in loosening prosecution policy in cases of assisted suicide.
Mrs Kenward, who was left paralysed by Guillain-Barre Syndrome in 1990, said that the court’s decision was ‘bizarre’ and ‘leaves vulnerable people at risk from dodgy doctors. On behalf of the disabled, elderly, terminally ill and others who are vulnerable, we will continue the fight for a reversal of this deceptive and dangerous liberalisation of prosecution policy’, she said.
Judicial Review rejected
An application for Judicial Review was heard last month by the president of the Queen’s Bench Division (Sir Brian Leveson) and two other High Court judges, but was rejected in December’s judgment.
