Press office

This afternoon, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt. Hon Steve Barclay, has intervened in the case of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee calling on the families’ urgent permission to appeal to the Supreme Court to be refused.

Today (August 1) the Court of Appeal will hold an urgent online hearing at 11am following interventions from the government and the UN in the case of Archie Battersbee.

An urgent online hearing in the case of Archie Battersbee has begun at the Court of Appeal following interventions from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) and the UK government.

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has today rejected the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) interim measures injunction and reinforced that it is in Archie’s ‘best interests’ to have life-support removed.

The Government Legal Department has dramatically referred the case of Archie Battersbee back to the Family Division of the High Court for ‘urgent consideration.’