Life-support treatment for 12-year-old Archie Battersbee is due to be withdrawn later.
Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousnessOn Monday, Court of Appeal judges ruled that the boy's life-sustaining treatmentJudges refused his parents permission to appeal against the ruling at the Supreme Court, but they might appeal directly.
At that hearing, Sir Andrew said: "In short, his system, his organs and, ultimately, his heart are in the process of closing down." Ms Dance has always been adamant that her son's future "shouldn't be with the decisions of a court - or the hospital"."I don't think I'm holding on to hope, I'm just asking for a realistic time for my child to recover from a brain injury."
While he agreed such cases should not be rushed, he said: "The law itself is quite straightforward. It requires me to act in the interests of the child and to look at the child's interests, so far as I can through the eyes of the child.
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