Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (Eire) - Supreme Court

Date: 04/29/2013

Subject: the Supreme Court, also recalling the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg, rejected the claim lodged by a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis aiming at determining the constitutional illegitimacy of the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act 1993 and its contrast with the norms of the ECHR

Parties: Marie Fleming e Ireland, Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions

Original language: Irish

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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