Suicide in switzerland: complicity in england

Criminal Law Review

Volumn , Issue 5, 2009, Pages 335-339

  Hirst, Michael ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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1. These include Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Oregon.
2. R. (on the application of Purdy) v DPP [2009] EWCA Civ 92; The Times, February 24, 2009.
3. R. (on the application of Pretty) v DPP [2001] UKHL 61; [2002] 1 A.C. 800.
4. Purdy [2009] EWCA Civ 92 at [2] and [72].
5. See, e.g. M. Hirst, Jurisdiction and the Ambit of the Criminal Law (2003), and "Murder as an Offence under English Law" (2004) 68 J. Crim. L. 315.
6. Unless he is a member of a specific class of persons (e.g. those subject to British armed forces discipline) who remain subject to the general corpus of English criminal law even when abroad.
7. "Venue and the Ambit of Criminal Law (part 3)" (1965) 81 L.Q.R. 518.
8. Ellis [1899] 1 Q.B. 230 QBD.
9. 9 Harden [1963] 1 Q.B. 8 CCA.
10. Tirado (1974) 59 Cr. App. R. 80 CA (Crim Div).
11. Thompson [1984] 1 W.L.R. 962 CA (Crim Div).
12. 12 Mackenzie and Higginson (1911) 6 Cr. App. R. 64; 75 J.P. 159.
13. R. v Governor of Brixton Prison Ex p. Levin [1997] Q.B. 65 DC.
14. Manning [1998] 2 Cr. App. R. 461 CA (Crim Div).
15. DPP v Stonehouse [1978] A.C. 55 HL.
16. Nanayakkara [1987] 1 W.L.R. 265 CA (Crim Div).
17. Secretary of State for Trade v Markus [1976] A.C. 35 HL.
18. Smith (Wallace Duncan) (No.l) [1996] 2 Cr. App. R. 1 CA (Crim Div).
19. 19 Smith (Wallace Duncan) (No.4) [2004] EWCACrim 631; [2004] Q.B. 1418
20. Serious Crime Act 2007 s.52(2) and Sch.4 para.2. See also the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 s.4, as interpreted in Abu Hamza [2006] EWCA Crim 2918; [2007] Q.B. 659. After considering the origins and wording of that provision, the Court of Appeal held that the offence of solicitation to murder could be committed in England whether or not the murder solicited would have been triable under English law.
21. Robert Millar (Contractors) Ltd [1970] 2 Q.B. 54 CA (Crim Div).
22. Broadly similar provision was previously made by the Sexual Offences Act 1956 s.22, now repealed.
23. See Panayi (1987) 86 Cr. App. R. 261 CA (Crim Div).
24. Trade Descriptions Act 1968 s.12, which prohibits false claims to royal patronage or approval, is one of the few offence-creating provisions of the 1968 Act to escape repeal under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1277).
25. Such cases are not unknown. It was recently reported that the suicide of a man in Coventry may have been encouraged or procured by emails sent from Minnesota. The sender was also being investigated by US police in connection with the suicide of a woman in Canada (Daily Mail, March 7, 2009).