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		</div><p>Charlie Gard’s mother has returned to the High Court for a new hearing a day after abandoning legal action over treatment for the terminally-ill baby.</p>
<p>Lawyers told a judge that Connie Yates and Charlie’s father, Chris Gard, wanted decisions about the circumstances in which their son died.</p>
<p>They said the couple wanted to take Charlie home, and indicated that Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors thought such a move would be problematic.</p>
<p>On Monday, Charlie’s parents gave up attempts to persuade a judge to allow the 11-month-old to travel to America for experimental therapy.</p>
<p>Barrister Grant Armstrong, who represents the couple, suggested to Mr Justice Francis that hospital bosses were placing obstacles in Charlie’s parents’ way.</p>
<p>The judge said Great Ormond Street bosses had indicated that there were practical difficulties.</p>
<p>He said they had suggested a &#8220;hospice option&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Justice Francis said: <i>&#8220;These are issues which cry out for settlement.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Lawyers for Great Ormond Street said bosses had suggested mediation, but added that Charlie’s parents had not wished to use the services of a mediator.</p>
<p>They also said medics wanted to avoid hazards or mishaps and wanted to ensure Charlie was safe.</p>
<p>They said practicalities were of the &#8220;greatest importance&#8221; but Charlie’s parents had proposed no clear plan.</p>
<p>The hospital’s lawyers said bosses wanted to fulfil Charlie’s parents’ &#8220;last desire&#8221;.</p>
<p>But they indicated that providing intensive care to Charlie outside a hospital setting was not simple.</p>
<p><b>Earlier:</b> Lawyers representing Charlie Gard’s parents and Great Ormond Street Hospital are due to return to the High Court in Londond in the next few hours.</p>
<p>Chris Gard and Connie Yates on Monday abandoned attempts to persuade a judge to allow their terminally-ill 11-month-old son to travel to America for experimental therapy.</p>
<p>But the judge who has analysed litigation is scheduled to oversee a further hearing in the case at 2pm in the Family Division of the High Court in London today.</p>
<p>A case listing gives no clue about issues Mr Justice Francis might be asked to consider.</p>
<figure id="attachment_115929" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-115929" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CharlieGardConnieYatesChrisGard_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CharlieGardConnieYatesChrisGard_large.jpg" alt="Charlie Gard, Connie Yates and Chris Gard" width="600" height="600" class="size-full wp-image-115929" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-115929" class="wp-caption-text">Charlie Gard with parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard.</figcaption></figure>
<p>On Monday, the couple said they wanted to &#8220;spend our last precious moments&#8221; with Charlie.</p>
<p>Ms Yates said she did not expect her son to live until his first birthday on August 4.</p>
<p>Bosses at Great Ormond Street Hospital have not said when Charlie’s life-support equipment will be turned off.</p>
<p>But in late June, when litigation appeared to have come to an end after European Court judges refused to intervene in the case, a hospital spokeswoman said there would be &#8220;careful planning and discussion&#8221; before life-support treatment ended.</p>
<p>Mr Gard and Ms Yates, who are in their 30s and from Bedfont, west London, had asked Mr Justice Francis to rule that Charlie should be allowed to undergo a therapy trial in New York.</p>
<p>Doctors at Great Ormond Street said the therapy would not help and that life-support treatment should stop.</p>
<p>Mr Justice Francis in April ruled in favour of Great Ormond Street and said Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity.</p>
<p>Charlie’s parents subsequently failed to overturn his ruling in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in London.</p>
<p>They also failed to persuade European Court of Human Rights judges to intervene.</p>
<p>But the couple recently returned to court, saying they had new evidence, and asked Mr Justice Francis to change his mind.</p>
<p>The couple abandoned their legal fight on Monday after concluding that Charlie had deteriorated to the &#8220;point of no return&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Gard read a statement during a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son Charlie, who unfortunately won’t make his first birthday in just under two weeks’ time,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mummy and Daddy love you so much, Charlie, we always have and we always will and we are so sorry that we couldn’t save you.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Sweet dreams, baby.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Sleep tight, our beautiful little boy.&#8221;</i></p>
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