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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Brian Farmer

Judge set to decide whether doctors can stop treating Archie Battersbee

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A High Court judge has set a timetable for decisions on the future of a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of a treatment dispute after suffering devastating brain damage.

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot has heard how specialists treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think it “highly likely” he is dead and say life support treatment should end.

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