Sir Anthony Paul Hayden (born 24 June 1961), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Hayden, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales and former barrister appointed to the High Court. He was called to the bar at

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in 1987 and was appointed a

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(QC) in 2002. On 31 July 2013, he was appointed a judge of the

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(Family Division) and invested with the customary

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in 2014. In 2018 he presided the

Alfie Evans case Alfie James Evans (9 May 2016 – 28 April 2018), was an infant boy from Liverpool with an undiagnosed neurodegenerative disorder, later revealed to be GABA-transaminase deficiency. The medical team and the child's parents disagreed about wheth ...

over the legal challenge by the parents of Alfie Evans against

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. In 2022, he was one of the judges to hear the

Archie Battersbee case Archie Battersbee, a British boy, was the subject of several court hearings between April and August 2022, regarding whether or not to withdraw his life support, after he was found unconscious and subsequently considered to have suffered brains ...

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