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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Joe Middleton and agency

Court to hear last-minute appeal in Archie Battersbee case

Archie Battersbee
Doctors had been due to stop giving Archie Battersbee life support treatment on Monday at 2pm before United Nations body became involved. Photograph: Hollie Dance/PA

A court of appeal hearing will take place on Monday morning in the long-running legal battle over whether to turn off life support treatment for 12-year-old Archie Battersbee.

It is understood the virtual hearing, which will take place at 11am, will consider a request from the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) to keep Archie alive so it could consider his case. A legal stay on the termination of treatment at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, east London, has been extended to 1pm on Monday.

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