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| Alfie Evans: Supreme Court rejects life support appeal | Alfie Evans: Supreme Court rejects life support appeal |
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| Lawyers acting for the family of Alfie Evans have been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court over a decision to withdraw life support. | |
| The 22-month-old is in Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital being treated for a degenerative brain disease. | The 22-month-old is in Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital being treated for a degenerative brain disease. |
| Doctors say there is nothing they can do for him and want to end treatment but the family have fought a long legal battle to prevent that happening. | Doctors say there is nothing they can do for him and want to end treatment but the family have fought a long legal battle to prevent that happening. |
| His parents will now consider applying to the European Court of Human Rights. | |
| Tom Evans and Kate James want him to remain on a ventilator so they can take him abroad for treatment. | |
| High Court judge Mr Justice Anthony Hayden ruled last month that the hospital can stop treating him. | |
| Mr Evans and Ms James challenged the decision at the Court of Appeal but it was upheld by Mrs Justice King, who agreed Alfie should receive palliative care. | |
| The Supreme Court rejected their claim that the previous courts have discriminated against them, contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. |