“… under ECHR, Art 8 is that a patient has the right to choose the manner of their death (Pretty v UK [2002] ECHR 2346/02, at paragraph 64 and Haas v Switzerland (2011) 53 EHRR 33 at paragraph 51) and it is not therefore for the court to substitute its own view of best interests which conflicts with those views. Again, this submission is…”
“…It has been endorsed repeatedly in later case law of the ECtHR that such matters engage Article 8(1), for example in Haas v Switzerland (2011) 53 EHRR 33, Koch v Germany (2012) 56 EHRR 6, Gross v Switzerland (2013) 58 EHRR 197 and Nicklinson v United Kingdom (2015) 61 EHRR SE7. As a result, it was common ground …”