Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2007] All ER (D) 316 (Dec); [2007] EWCA Civ 1375 (20 December 2007)
The UK Court of Appeal has held that the right to life includes a positive obligation to actively safeguard life and that the negligent failure of a psychiatric hospital to take adequate steps to prevent the suicide of a patient amounted to a violation of that patient’s right to life.
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