Dying man ecstatic after winning control of treatment
Leslie Burke, aged 44, of Mardale Road, Newton Estate, Lancaster, who has a degenerative brain condition, had taken his case to the High Court because he feared that his wish to go on living until he dies naturally could be overridden by General Medical Council guidelines.
A High Court judge in London announced that, although the bulk of the GMC's guidance on the withholding and withdrawing of life-prolonging treatments was a "compelling piece of work", he ruled parts of it were "unlawful".
