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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Kieran Isgin

Archie Battersbee life support case to be reconsidered after parents win appeal battle

The Archie Battersbee life support case will be reconsidered after the boy's family won a Court of Appeal fight.

The 12-year-old boy's parents asked for a review of the case after a High Court judge ruled that the younger was officially dead. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot recently said that doctors could lawfully end treatment for Archie after examining evidence at a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in London.

However, three appeal judges on Wednesday ruled that evidence relating to what was in Archie's best interest should be reconsidered by a different High Court Judge. Lawyers representing the parents Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, of Southend, Essex, argued that Mrs Justice Arbuthnot had made errors in the trial.

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