# Case (Covert medication and residence). Re A (Covert Medication: Residence) \[2024\] EWCA Civ 572

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— The local authority and her own litigation friend appealed the court's decision that it was in her best interests to cease to be given covert medication, to be informed that she had been covertly medicated and to leave her care home and return to live with her mother.

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