The parents of a 12-year-old boy in a coma have been given the right to appeal against the decision to allow his life-support treatment to end.
Hollie Dance and her family have won the right to have Archie's case heard at the Court of Appeal
However, following another hearing, the same judge, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, granted Archie's parents permission to take the case to the Court of Appeal.Archie was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April. But in a High Court hearing questioning that decision, she said an argument by the family's legal team that the standard of proof in relation to "declaration of death" should have been higher was a "compelling" reason for the case to be heard by appeal judges.
Mr Devereux said for a decision of such "gravity", the judge should have been satisfied "beyond reasonable doubt" and not made a decision about Archie's treatment ending on "the balance of probabilities".
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