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Daniel Keane

Archie Battersbee: Court of Appeal grants parents’ request for new hearing

Archie Battersbee, 12, whose family is at the centre of a High Court life-treatment dispute

(Picture: PA Media)

Court of Appeal judges have ruled that a High Court judge should reconsider the case of Archie Battersbee and decide whether it is in his best interests for life-support treatment to end.

Archie’s parents had asked for a review after Mrs Justice Arbuthnot concluded that the 12-year-old boy was dead and that doctors could lawfully stop providing him with treatment.

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