‘Sad and sadly inevitable’ conclusion to case of Charlie Gard

There is a need for better ways to avoid cases of disagreement from coming to court , as the parents of terminally ill Charlie Gard accept legal fight for treatment is over, writes Ella Pickover

The Charlie Gard case has reached “its sad and sadly inevitable” conclusion as his parents have ended their legal fight over treatment for their terminally ill baby son.

Dominic Wilkinson, consultant neonatologist and professor of medical ethics at the University of Oxford, said that “deep disputes” between medics and parents about the treatment of a child are “rare”.