View source for Re A (Covert Medication: Closed Proceedings) (2022) EWCOP 44

{{Case
|Date=2022/10/07
|NCN=[2022] EWCOP 44
|Essex issue=127
|Essex page=14
|Court=Court of Protection
|Judges=Poole
|Parties=A Council, A, B, An NHS Trust
|Judicial history first case=The Local Authority v A (2019) EWCOP 68
|Sentence=Covert medication - closed proceedings
|Summary="This case concerns closed proceedings at which the Court of Protection has authorised the covert administration of hormone treatment to a young woman without the knowledge of her family. A is the subject of these proceedings. B is her mother. This judgment is published as a single judgment but Part One follows a closed hearing on 15 September 2022, to which B was not a party, on the Trust’s application in relation to the covert medication of A. Part Two follows an open hearing involving all parties on 20-22 September 2022. Given my decisions (i) to approve the continuation of covert medication but (ii)  to end the closed proceedings and to inform B of the covert treatment of A, I circulated my draft judgment in Part One to all parties’ representatives during the open hearing. B was then made a party to the Trust’s application and the closed proceedings bundle of documents was disclosed to her. At the open hearing I gave oral rulings on the next steps in the proceedings, contact, and reporting restrictions, and informed the parties that I would prepare a written judgment on those issues. I then circulated my full draft judgment. This judgment, approved for publication in anonymised form, includes both the closed and open judgments. The paragraph numbering is consecutive over the two parts."
|Detail===Citation==
Also: "A (Covert Medication: Closed Proceedings)"

==Previous judgment==
"I have taken steps to have the judgment of 18 June 2019, a copy of which HHJ Moir approved for publication, anonymised and published. Its neutral citation number is [2019] EWCOP 68 and it is being published simultaneously with this judgment."
|Subject=Medical treatment cases,Reporting restriction order cases
|News=Yes
|RSS pubdate=2022/10/13 08:18:32 PM
}}