UK brain-damaged boy at centre of hospital legal battle dies
London, UKReuters A 12-year-old British boy with brain damage at the centre of a legal battle over whether to continue his life support system died on Saturday after a hospital ended treatment, his family said. The parents of Archie Battersbee made unsuccessful appeals at Britain’s highest courts and the European Court of Human Rights against […]
European court refuses to intervene in case of British boy on life support
London, UK Reuters Europe’s human rights court on Wednesday refused a request from the parents of a 12-year-old British boy with brain damage to intervene in a decision to remove life support. The verdict from the European Court of Human Rights follows unsuccessful appeals by 12-year-old Archie Battersbee’s parents Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee at […]
In the UK, family loses Supreme Court bid to extend boy’s life support
London, UKAP Britain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to prevent a hospital withdrawing life support from a 12-year-old boy with catastrophic brain damage, rejecting a bid by his parents to extend his treatment. The parents of Archie Battersbee had asked Supreme Court justices to block a lower court’s ruling that the Royal London Hospital can […]