Doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to Archie Battersbee, appeal judges have ruled.
The 12-year-old's parents asked for a review of the case after a High Court judge ruled that the youngster was 'brain-stem dead'. Mr Justice Hayden supported the view of doctors at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, that treatment would not be in his best interests.
Today (Monday), three Court of Appeal judges refused an appeal put forward by Archie's family that his treatment should continue. Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Peter Jackson had considered arguments at a hearing at the Court of Appeal in London last week.
