A High Court in Belfast has ruled that Jonathan Simms, a teenager suffering from variant CJD, the human form of BSE, can have pioneering treatment performed on him in Northern Ireland.
The parents of the 18-year-old youth, who is dying from the brain disease, had previously won the right to have a drug injected into their son's brain in the High Court in London last week.
However they were forced to return to the High Court in Belfast as the original verdict did not apply in Northern Ireland.
