Brain damaged schoolboy Archie Battersbee 'must be allowed to die', High Court judge rules

Archie Battersbee's mum and dad have revealed they are filing another legal bid to have the schoolboy moved to a hospice. Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee claim they should be allowed to choose where the 12-year-old takes his final moments.

The parents of Archie Battersbee are making a final plea for him to have “a dignified death”, as the legal battle over his life edges to its conclusion. Hollie Dance, the boy’s mum, said she wanted her son to be allowed to be transferred from hospital to a hospice so he can “spend his last moments” with his loved ones privately.

The parents of Archie Battersbee have filed an application to the Supreme Court in a bid to extend his life-sustaining treatment to allow time for a United Nations committee to consider the 12-year-old’s case.

Life-support treatment for Archie Battersbee is expected to be switched off on Tuesday after the Court of Appeal rejected a last-minute bid to postpone the ending of his treatment.

Archie Battersbee is set to have his life support removed after his family lost their final bid to keep him alive today.

In a stinging rebuke of the Art Directors Guild and Chuck Parker, its national executive director, an NLRB administrative law judge has found that Parker “unlawfully” fired the guild’s longtime accountant “in retaliation” for her successful efforts to form a union among the guild’s staff.

found out she lost her sensational courtroom battle with Coleen Rooney today. The trial, which took place in May, centred around the explosive claims Rebekah was leaking stories about Coleen to the press.

Britney Spears' favor on Wednesday, saying that the singer will not have to sit for a deposition in the ongoing legal battle with her father.Britney's lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, argued that she feels traumatized by her experience under Jamie Spears' long-running conservatorship and that exposing her to invasive questioning via a deposition would further re-traumatize her. He asked the court, «What would a decent father do?» Jamie's lawyer, Alex Weingarten, called the plea «theatrics» and «attacks,» saying that Jamie cared for his daughter «beautifully.» He said Jamie deserved a chance to question Britney under oath about her public allegations against him. Judge Brenda Penny ultimately decided that any information Jamie needs to defend himself against allegations of conservatorship abuse could be obtained from other sources, including documents and other witnesses.

Britney Spears just got another win in court.

Naman Ramachandran Broadcast news channels will be able to air judges’ sentencing remarks from the U.K. Crown Court for the first time from July 28, following a landmark change in the law. The move will allow the public to see and hear judges explain the reasoning behind their sentences, and will open up some of the best-known courts across the U.K., including the Central Criminal Court, which is more commonly known as the Old Bailey.

Prince Harry can now take the British government to court over his security arrangements, a judge in London ruled.  When Harry and wife Meghan Markle gave up their status as senior royals and moved to California in 2020, they lost publicly funded U.K. police protection.  The Duke of Sussex now wants to pay for his own police security for when he visits his family in Britain and is challenging the government’s refusal to allow it. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked to pay for their own security, and the government denied their request.

Prince Harry is now allowed to take the British government to court over his security arrangements in the U.K., a judge in London ruled Friday.

The parents of a 12-year-old boy in a “comatose state” and considered “brain-stem dead” by doctors want a High Court judge to consider evidence for a third time. Archie Battersbee suffered “catastrophic” brain damage in an accident at home in April, and has not regained consciousness.

Addie Morfoot Contributor“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down,” an inspirational story about the former Arizona congresswoman’s fight to recover from an assassination attempt in 2011 and lobby for greater gun safety laws, arrives in theaters July 15 amid a troubling surge in mass shootings across the country, underscoring the scope of her challenge. But Giffords, who struggles to speak due to injuries she incurred in that attack, remains undaunted, even in the wake of the July 4 mass shootings in Illinois and the June 23 Supreme Court decision overturning concealed-carry gun restrictions in New York.