Parents win appeal for extra hearing over son's life support
The Guardian|June 30, 2022
The parents of Archie Battersbee said they were "delighted" after winning an appeal against ending the 12-year-old's life support treatment.
Tom Ambrose
Parents win appeal for extra hearing over son's life support

A high court judge ruled that Archie, who sustained brain damage about three months ago, was dead after a hospital trust asked the court to decide what was in the child's best interest. However, the court of appeal decided yesterday that the evidence should be reconsidered by a different judge in the family division of the high court in London.

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