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The parents of Archie Battersbee, Paul Battersbee and Hollie Dance, leave the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, they want Court of Appeal judges to overturn a ruling by High Court judge Mr Justice Hayden, who decided that life-support treatment for their 12-year-old son who suffered a "devastating" brain injury could stop. Picture date: Friday July 22, 2022.

Archie Battersbee should never have become a media spectacle

Noah Keate | UK

The personal tragedy is the latest in a series of high-profile cases where a highly private struggle is made public.

We must curb the state’s power over life and death

Gerald Warner | News

Once again, Britain is being denounced both at home and overseas as being in thrall to a “culture of death”, after “RS”, a middle-aged man