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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Farmer

Parents of life-support boy Archie Battersbee ask for case to be reviewed

PA Media

The parents of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute have asked Court of Appeal judges to order a review hearing after a High Court judge concluded that the youngster was dead.

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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