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United Kingdom: on 2 August the plug on little Archie must be unplugged. Parents ask for an extension

2022-08-01T17:17:53.259Z


The decision of the English Court of Appeal: 'Every day is one more day of agony'. The family wants to have the case examined by the UN. (HANDLE)


The

British Court of Appeal

has set for Tuesday 2 August at noon the implementation of

the green

light at the

end of the life support

to

Archie Battersbee

, the 12-year-old Englishman in a coma for months after being found unconscious at home on April 7 last and hospitalized since then in the London Royal Hospital.

The

decision

, already authorized in three levels of judgment by the British justice, is strongly

opposed by the child's parents

,

Hollie

and

Paul

, who still believe in a possible awakening despite the expectations of London doctors and who had returned to the Court to allow an examination of the case by

the UN Committee

for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNRPD).

Committee that has accepted in recent days to evaluate the urgent appeal presented by the family;

and who, through the British government, had in turn urged the judges to freeze the proceedings pending their own ruling.

However, the Court has limited itself to postponing the implementation of the decision to pull the plug from this afternoon, as originally planned, to tomorrow.

An indication immediately contested by the parents, after their lawyer had feared it as a potential "

violation of international law

".

The panel called to rule on the petition - formed by Judge Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family law section of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and by colleagues Eleanor King and Andrew Moylan - has flatly dismissed the request, denying

no judicial role in

the United Kingdom

at the UN Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Unrpd).

And it granted mother Hollie and father Paul less than 24 hours to now verify the possible admissibility of the case at recognized international judicial institutions (such as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which has already in the past rejected similar appeals of the families);

or else let the

doctors

proceed to

interrupt the assisted ventilation

that keeps Archie alive.

In the device, Sir Andrew reiterated the endorsement of British justice for the diagnosis of

probable death of brain cells

long advanced by the doctors who are treating the child.

"Every day he continues to receive vital treatment" is

one more day of agony

, "contrary" to what the Court has established as "his best interest," continued the high magistrate, ruling out further postponements at the state: "even short".

Not without underlining that the UNRPD is the result of a treaty that "has no legal personality" and is not entitled to be involved "in the decision-making process as it is not subject to law in the United Kingdom". 

Source: ansa

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