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Adam May & Brian Farmer, PA & Dan Warburton & Alahna Kindred

Archie Battersbee's family given go-ahead to take case to the Court of Appeal

The family of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute have been given the green light to take the case to the Court of Appeal.

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.

Archie’s parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, from Southend, Essex, want Court of Appeal judges to consider the case.

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