"Right to die" campaign rejected in Supreme Court
A legal battle over the right to die, which has been led in part by a man from Leeds, has been rejected at the Supreme Court.
Court defeat won't stop right to die campaigners
Campaigners say a defeat at the Court of Appeal in July has not put them off taking their fight to the Supreme Court today.
Paul Lamb, from Leeds, is immobile except for limited movement in his right hand and has been in significant pain since his accident in 1990.
Along with another accident victim and the widow of campaigner Tony Nicklinson, he will appear at the court in front of nine judges.
Appeal judges dismissed the Nicklinson and Lamb challenges over the legal ban on voluntary euthanasia.
After the July ruling, Mrs Nicklinson said: "We will carry on with the case for as long as we can so that others who find themselves in a position similar to Tony don't have to suffer as he did. Nobody deserves such cruelty.''
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