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| Dying man Noel Conway can fight right to die law | |
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| A terminally ill man has won the right to bring a High Court challenge over the law on assisted dying. | |
| Noel Conway, 67, asked the Court of Appeal to overturn a decision which prevented a judicial review over the blanket ban on providing a person with assistance to die. | |
| The retired college lecturer, who has motor neurone disease, is not expected to live beyond 12 months. | |
| Mr Conway, from Shropshire, was diagnosed with the disease in 2014. | |
| He lost an earlier High Court bid on 30 March. | |
| Mr Conway wants a declaration that the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, which relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which protects from discrimination. | |
| He told judges in previous hearings he faced an "unbearable death" because of the law. |