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Nicklinson’s widow is refused right to appeal to higher court
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BMJ
2012;345:e6690
- Clare Dyer
- 1BMJ
The widow of Tony Nicklinson, the man with locked-in syndrome who starved himself to death after losing a High Court battle for voluntary euthanasia, has been refused permission to take his case on appeal to a higher court.1
The three judges who originally ruled against him in the High Court case last August acknowledged that it was “an important question whether the …
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