In re Kelly Taylor

Represented a hospice caring for a terminally ill woman who wished to have morphine administered to her to the point of unconsciousness and death.  The hospice considered that her request was in breach of the current law; the claimant contended that her request was lawful, since she was seeking pain relief, not death; alternatively that, to the extent that the law prevented her request being carried out, it required reinterpretation in the light of the Human Rights Act 1998.  After a number of submissions on the law had been made by the parties, and very shortly before the hearing, the claim was eventually withdrawn.