Archie Battersbee: family seek to appeal against ruling boy is dead

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Parents of injured 12-year-old hope to challenge ruling Archie is brain-stem dead and treatment can be stopped

The family of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute are preparing to mount an appeal after aMrs Justice Arbuthnot recently ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing treatment to Archie Battersbee after considering evidence at a trial in the family division of the high court in London.

A spokesperson for the campaign organisation the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting Archie’s family, told reporters that relatives would use a follow-up high court hearing to ask Arbuthnot to give them the go-ahead to mount an appeal.Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, east London, told Arbuthnot they believed the youngster was “brain-stem dead”.

 

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