Woman 勝利，勝つs 権利-to-die 事例／患者

A woman paralysed from the neck 負かす／撃墜する for more than a year today won her High 法廷，裁判所 戦う／戦い for the 権利 to die.

The woman, who was 認めるd anonymity and referred to in 法廷，裁判所 as 行方不明になる B, learned she had won her 事例／患者 経由で a ビデオ link to her hospital bed.

The 目印 判決，裁定 by Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 大統領 of the High 法廷，裁判所 family 分割, will 許す the woman to end her life 平和的に and with dignity, the 裁判官 said.

Dame Elizabeth also awarded 行方不明になる B £100 名目上の 損害賠償金 for "unlawful trespass".

At the 初めの 審理，公聴会 earlier this month, three 審査するs inside the courtroom showed the woman, who is kept alive by a ventilator, lying in her bed surrounded by a team of lawyers and 医療の staff.

Dame Elizabeth listened as the 43-year-old former social care professional explained why she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to leave the hospital 集中的な care 区 where she has been kept alive for a year and taken to doctors who are 用意が出来ている to switch off her life support machine.

While 審理，公聴会 the 事例／患者, the 裁判官 表明するd 恐れるs that she herself could become "emotionally 伴う／関わるd" in the 患者's 戦う／戦い.

After the visit to the hospital, the 裁判官 returned to the High 法廷，裁判所 to continue the 合法的な argument which was relayed 支援する to the hospital for the woman to be 伴う／関わるd in the 訴訟／進行s.

It is believed to be the first time that 法廷，裁判所 訴訟／進行s at a hospital have been relayed 経由で ビデオ link.

Today Dame Elizabeth, who has made an order 禁じるing the 指名するing of the woman, her doctors and the hospital or NHS 信用 伴う／関わるd, gave her 判決，裁定 from Birmingham where she is 審理，公聴会 事例／患者s on 回路・連盟.

Doctors at the hospital say it would be against their 倫理学 to switch off the machine needed to keep the 患者 alive since a 決裂d 血 大型船 in her neck a year ago left her paralysed and unable to breathe unaided.

ビデオ 審査するs at the High 法廷，裁判所 in London were 分裂（する） three ways, showing the 法廷，裁判所 itself, the High Co urt in Birmingham where Dame Elizabeth gave her judgment and 行方不明になる B in her hospital bed.

The 43-year-old former social care professional could be seen chatting with her carers minutes before the 裁判官 認めるd her sad wish.

At 10am, the ビデオ switched to a 十分な 審査する of Dame Elizabeth, who then 発表するd that the woman known only as 行方不明になる B had had the necessary mental capacity since August last year to give 同意 or to 辞退する 同意 to life 支えるing 医療の 治療.

In her judgment, 手渡すd 負かす／撃墜する after the 裁判官 had spoken on 審査する, Dame Elizabeth said: "One must 許す for those as 厳しく 無能にするd as Ms B, for some of whom life in that 条件 may be worse than death."

She said it was a question of values and "we have to try inadequately to put ourselves into the position of the 厳粛に 無能にするd person and 尊敬（する）・点 the subjective character of experience".

Dame Elizabeth, who met 行方不明になる B at her hospital 病人の枕元 during the first morning of the 審理，公聴会, said of the 患者: "I would like to 追加する how impressed I am with her as a person, with the 広大な／多数の／重要な courage, strength of will and 決意 she has shown in the last year, with her sense of humour, and her understanding of the 窮地 she has 提起する／ポーズをとるd to the hospital.

"She is 明確に a splendid person and it is 悲劇の that someone of her ability has been struck 負かす／撃墜する so cruelly.

"I hope she will 許す me for 説, diffidently, that if she did 再考する her 決定／判定勝ち（する）, she would have a lot to 申し込む／申し出 the community 捕まらないで."

Robert Francis QC, who 代表するd the hospital 信用, said in 法廷，裁判所 after 審理，公聴会 the 判決，裁定: "I should say, 耐えるing in mind the public 利益／興味, that the 信用 fully 受託するs your ladyship's 決定／判定勝ち（する） and, I am 教えるd, has no 意向 of 控訴，上告ing."

He then said the hospital would like to 表明する 悔いる for any 苦しめる "however unintentionally 原因（となる）d" to 行方不明になる B in the course of 解決するing "this very difficult 事例／患者".

行方不明になる B, in a 声明 問題／発行するd through her solicitors Leigh D ay and Co after the 判決，裁定, said: "This is a balanced and 井戸／弁護士席 thought out judgment and I am very pleased with the 結果 of this 事例／患者.

"The 法律 on 同意 to 治療 is very （疑いを）晴らす and this has been a long and unnecessary and 本人自身で painful 過程.

"I hope the judgment will be a useful 文書 for 未来 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making.

"For this NHS 信用 the most 肯定的な 結果 would be for them to take 注意する of the judgment and put in place proper governance 手はず／準備 for 取引，協定ing with these 問題／発行するs."

行方不明になる B's solicitor フランs Swaine said: "The hospital 扱う／治療するing my （弁護士の）依頼人 has been 設立する to be 事実上の／代理 unlawfully and the 法廷，裁判所 has 確認するd my （弁護士の）依頼人's capacity to decide her 未来.

"We are pleased that she now has the 保証／確信 that she can make her own 決定／判定勝ち（する）s. I'm sure she will continue to 行為／法令／行動する with the courage and dignity she has shown so far.

"This 事例／患者 is really about choice and the 判決，裁定 is a 確定／確認 of the 権利 of all 患者s with capacity, however 厳しく 無能にするd, to be able to choose whether to 受託する 医療の 治療 or to 辞退する it."

She 追加するd: "This 権利 is supported by the Human 権利s 行為／法令／行動する which enshrines our 権利 to 尊敬（する）・点 for 私的な life and the 禁止 of degrading 治療."

The solicitor said 行方不明になる B should never have had to come to 法廷，裁判所 in the first place "but from this judgment we now have clearer 指導／手引 for hospital 経営者／支配人s on how to 答える／応じる more 速く and carefully to 患者s' needs in such 状況／情勢s".

行方不明になる B, who has never married who has has no children, took her 事例／患者 to the High 法廷，裁判所 when doctors 辞退するd for 倫理的な 推論する／理由s to switch off the ventilator keeping her alive - even though two psychiatrists had pronounced her 有能な of making a 決定／判定勝ち（する） on whether or not to continue her 医療の 治療 in August last year.

She （人命などを）奪う，主張するd her 治療 at an 集中的な care 部隊 was an unlawful trespass and Dame Elizabeth identified the 問題／発行する as whether the 患者 had the capacity to make her own choice.

The 裁判官 said in her 判決，裁定 today: "Underlying this important 問題／発行する is the 悲劇の story of an able and talented woman of 43 who has 苦しむd a 破滅的な illness which has 原因（となる）d her to become tetraplegic and whose 表明するd wish is not to be kept artificially alive by the use of a ventilator."

行方不明になる B's ordeal began after a 決裂d 血 大型船 in her neck a year ago left her paralysed and unable to breathe unaided.