Court of Appeal to hear case for keeping 12-year-old Archie Battersbee on life-support
Doctors treating him at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, had told judges they thought Archie was "brain-stem dead" and should be disconnected from a ventilator.Lawyers representing the Barts Health NHS Trust had asked the High Court to decide what moves were in Archie's best interests.Archie's parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, said his heart was still beating and wanted treatment to continue.
They challenged the decision in the Court of Appeal where three appeal judges ruled that evidence relating to what was in Archie's best interests should be reconsidered by a different High Court judge. Their barrister, Edward Devereux QC, had argued that evidence had not shown "beyond reasonable doubt" that Archie was dead.
Ms Dance said she found her son unconscious and thinks he might have been taking part in an online challenge.
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