Care Not Killing intervened in a case before the European Court of Human Rights earlier this year. Mr Daniel Karsai, a Hungarian national living with ALS (MND), argued that Hungary's laws on assisted suicide conflict with Articles 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention on Human Rights. This month, judges ruled that there is no Convention right to assisted suicide.

"The Court observed that there were potentially broad social implications and risks of error and abuse involved in the provision of physician-assisted dying. Despite a growing trend towards its legalisation, the majority of the member States of the Council of Europe continue to prohibit both medically assisted suicide and euthanasia. The State thus had wide discretion in this respect, and the Court found that the Hungarian authorities had not failed to strike a fair balance between the competing interests at stake and had not overstepped that discretion."