... to be able to cross-examine his alleged victim? This example shows that law sometimes has to modify procedural justice in order to achieve real justice. Another example of a difficulty arising in practice is the case of Dianne Pretty who was in the final stages of motor neurone disease and wanted her husband to help her die to avoid a distressing and undignified death. The European Court of Human Rights found against her and accepted the view that the ban on assisted suicides was just, and that to make an exception for Mrs Pretty would open the floodgates to other cases. Phillip Havers is an articles in The Times argued against the decision of the court on the basis that 'the ban on assisted suicides in England is indiscriminate, it catches everyone, not only the weak and vulnerable, who it is intended to protect, but also those like Mrs Pretty who ...

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