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Closed hearing case in open court today

Closed hearing case in open court today

Court of Protection to review care plan of woman given covert hormone treatment

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Joshua Rozenberg
Nov 15, 2022
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Later today, a High Court judge will review the care plan of a woman in her early 20s who was given hormone treatment to bring on puberty without her knowledge and after her mother had been excluded from a “closed” hearing at which the treatment was ordered.

The woman’s primary ovarian failure had been left untreated — at great risk to her health — unti…

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