The Home Office is to be asked to try to break the deadlock over securing a medicinal cannabis prescription for a severely epileptic boy.

A High Court judge made the announcement in the case of County Tyrone boy Billy Caldwell on Tuesday.

The Department of Health will also be invited to take part in proceedings aimed at obtaining the treatment for the 14-year-old on the NHS.

The court heard that current arrangements could end.

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