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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jamie Grierson

Archie Battersbee: family granted appeal against ruling boy is dead

Archie Battersbee with his mother
Archie Battersbee with his mother, Hollie Dance, before his injury. Photograph: Hollie Dance/PA

The parents of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute have been given the right to take the case to the court of appeal after a high court judge ruled that the child was dead and his treatment could be stopped.

Mrs 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.

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