Uk law what will this test case about assisted suicide decide?

please see link for other details on this case:


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/鈥?/a>





does it simply decide specifically whether people can travel to clinics with someone, or is it more general than that for ';assisted suicide'; laws, ie providing funding for the clinic etc. (ie if someone gave you the funds to go to the clinic etc as well) or other general assisted suicide laws? ( um, i dont know what is covered in the ';Assisted suicide law'; so i dont know what could be changed, please specify if you can)





eg is it only a specific ruling for THIS case? or will it CHANGE the assisted suicide law as it is now? if so, how is it to be changed? just removed completely? altered? what? thanksUk law what will this test case about assisted suicide decide?
This case concerns one particular couple. At the moment, anyone assisting a person to commit suicide stands to be prosecuted under the Suicide Act for aiding and abetting a suicide. Suicide itself used to be a crime, but the law was amended some years ago. Now suicide is not a crime, but aiding and abetting a suicide is. As this couple are feeling desperate about the wife's situation and it is against the law for her to seek medical intervention to put an end to her life, they have applied to the High Court for a ruling that if they go abroad to a country where euthanasia is permitted the husband will not be prosecuted under English law on his return to the UK. If the court finds in favour of the couple, then this will set a precedent and other people wanting to travel abroad for this purpose may expect not to be prosecuted for doing so. It may well in due course lead to a change in the law, as the EU moves further towards a unified legal system, but the actual decision as such will not change the law.





Edit: This link from today's press clarifies the situation. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majornew鈥?/a>Uk law what will this test case about assisted suicide decide?
Nothing. This is just one court case. The result will not redefine the law.