News Round-Up
24 April 2024
In the Judicial Review of 5G last week, Michael Mansfield KC challenged the Government for its "failure to inform the public about the risks of 5G" and the lack of "investigation of any adverse health effects".
The Court of Appeal has recently given permission for a judicial review challenging the Government for “failure to give adequate information to the public about the risks of 5G". Gillian Jamieson looks at why.
The result of deploying judicial review as a weapon of political struggle, as has happened in recent decades, was always going to be that the courts would end up having their wings clipped.
Disappointingly, the High Court has dismissed the application for judicial review of vaccinating 5-11 year-olds, confirming the court’s absolute reluctance to scrutinise Government decisions where Covid is involved.
India's Supreme Court has ruled that owing to "bodily integrity and personal autonomy" and because the Covid vaccines don't prevent transmission, no individual can be forced to get vaccinated.
Government policies on discharging untested patients from hospital to care homes in England at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court.
Austria’s powerful Constitutional Court has demanded detailed data from the Government Health Ministry justifying the coronavirus response plus an explanation of the recent wave of non-Covid excess deaths.
The ONS admits it holds the data on child deaths following vaccination but has not revealed them publicly, so last week a parent asked Judge Jonathan Swift to direct the ONS to release the data. Her request was denied.
Robin Tilbrook, the solicitor leading one of the legal challenges of the Government's Lockdown Regulations, has written a guest post for Lockdown Sceptics updating us on this particular challenge. He now has a court date!
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