NSW government wins landmark court challenge to public health orders
The NSW government has won a landmark Supreme Court challenge to the state’s lockdown measures to combat the Covid outbreak.
Two sets of plaintiffs - who all refused to be vaccinated - filed civil suits asking for various aspects of the public health orders to be quashed and that the government be restrained from setting any further lockdown measures.
Northern Rivers woman Natasha Henry and five other citizens asked the court to overturn rules requiring aged care workers to get the Covid-19 jab and prohibiting unvaccinated essential workers from leaving a local government area of concern for their jobs.
Another group, including construction worker Al-Munir Kassam, was asking the public health orders be declared invalid because they impugn their “personal liberty” and force them to undergo a medical procedure.
However, Robert Justice Beech-Jones ordered that both lawsuits be dismissed on Friday afternoon. more [...]
