Question juridique clé
Whether the appeal against the prescribing ban had become moot after the appellant's practice licence was restricted.
Solution extraite
The ban no longer had practical effect because the appellant could no longer lawfully treat the relevant assisted-suicide clients under his new limited licence; the appeal was therefore moot.
Motifs extraits
From 1 January 2011 the appellant held only a senior practice licence limited to close relatives, close friends, and expert opinions. The challenged ban concerned only prescribing sodium pentobarbital for psychically ill persons seeking assisted suicide, which had no realistic future application.