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...have a jury hear the inquests into the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed. Al Fayed believes Diana and his son were murdered by British intelligence. Three judges at London's High Court overturned a previous ruling by deputy royal coroner Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss in which she decided she would hear the case alone: "We quash the decisions to conduct the inquests as deputy coroner for the Queen's Household and without summoning a jury...
...stop paparazzi from harassing celebrities in the future. They also said that the "immense public interest" in the case worldwide called for transparency and made a jury necessary. And they referred to Al Fayed's claims that the crash was no accident, saying that if Butler-Sloss decides the inquests should look into the allegations, "the possible role of state agents" was another reason that a jury should hear the case. (The jury would not rule on who is to blame for Diana and Dodi's deaths, but they could rule on whether or not the crash was an accident...
...January, Butler-Sloss, who was one of Britain's top judges before she retired, decided to preside over the case alone because she thought that the volume and detail of the evidence would be too much for a jury to handle. She said that only a coroner could give the "careful and fully reasoned decision" that the inquests required. Her ruling seemed to go against the wishes of Princes William and Harry, who a week earlier had sent a letter to Butler-Sloss asking that the inquest "not only be open, fair and transparent, but that it should move swiftly...
...Fayed's challenge to Butler-Sloss' decision also took issue with the fact that she was presiding over the inquest as royal deputy coroner, which gave the perception that she "lacked [the] independence" needed to remain impartial in judging whether or not the Princess and Dodi Fayed were murdered. The High Court judges agreed, ruling that if Butler-Sloss is still going to hear the case, she can't do it as the royal coroner...
...also the feeling in Britain, where courts must decide on a case-by-case basis whether nutrition and hydration can be denied to patients in a PVS. Courts are also involved in resolving disagreements on whether treatment should be withheld from critically ill patients. Last year, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the High Court Family Division, ruled that doctors had the right to deny 9-month-old Luke Winston-Jones mechanical ventilation if he stopped breathing, despite his mother's insistence on intervention. Winston-Jones was born with a rare genetic condition that left him with holes in his heart...