Writing for the Liverpool Echo, reporters Alan Weston and Brian Farmer explained that Kate James, 20, and Tom Evans, 21, must first clear an “initial legal hurdle”: to “persuade Supreme Court justices that they have a case worth arguing.”
The spokeswoman said justices might make that decision after considering written arguments or may stage a hearing where the merits of the couple’s case could be debated.
Evans and James have lost two court battles to win permission to move their 22-month-old son from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool to Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome in hopes doctors could determine what is the cause of his mysterious degenerative brain disease and provide additional medical interventions.
On March 6, Lord Justices McFarlane and McCombe and Lady Justice King of the nation’s second highest court concurred with the ruling of Mr. Justice Hayden who on February 20 agreed with specialists at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital who said life-support treatment should stop. “I am satisfied that continued ventilatory support is no longer in Alfie’s interests,” the judge held.
The day the three judge Court of Appeal rendered their decision, the Liverpool Echo reported that
Lady Justice King said an MRI scan in November 2017 showed that 70% of the matter in Alfie’s brain had been destroyed.
She said an independent witness told a previous hearing that Alfie’s brain was “entirely beyond recovery” with no capacity to regenerate itself
The parents vigorously dispute the diagnosis, and showed startling video of a much more responsive little boy than testimony given by the hospital suggested.
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