Tony Nicklinson's family win permission to continue right-to-die campaign Mrs Nicklinson has said that continuing the legal battle is likely to involve a long campaign, fraught with legal technicalities, but the family sees it as "part of Tony's legacy, we're fighting for him, on his behalf." Mr Nicklinson was a keen sportsman until he was paralysed by a stroke while on a business trip to Athens in 2005. Three judges sitting at the High Court in London referred to his "terrible predicament" and described his case as 'deeply moving and tragic'. But Lord Justice Toulson, Mr Justice Royce and Mrs Justice Macur unanimously agreed it would be wrong for the court to depart from the long-established legal position that "voluntary euthanasia is murder, however understandable the motives may be." They said doctors and solicitors who encouraged or assisted another person to commit suicide were "at real risk of prosecution." Refusing judicial review, the judges agreed that the current law did not breach human rights and it was for Parliament, not the courts, to decide whether it should be changed. Appeal judges will now have to decide whether or not they agree with the High Court's stance. Mrs Nicklinson tweeted today: "I have been granted the right to appeal the High Court decision that went against us. Good news indeed!