The COVID vaccine mandate for the NZDF is rearing its head again. It was last in the news in February last year, when the group ‘United we Stand NZ’, represented by lawyer Matthew Hague of Frontline Law fought against the mandate instituted in the Police and Defence Force:
On 6 January [2022], three unvaccinated staff sought a judicial review of the mandate.
They were supported by affidavits from 37 of their colleagues in the same situation.
Justice Cooke today released his decision which upheld their claims the vaccination order breached their rights under the Bill of Rights Act.
While the judge did not accept some of the applicants’ arguments, he agreed the mandate infringed on section 11 and section 15 of the Act.
“The order limits the right to be free to refuse medical treatment recognised by the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (including because of its limitation on…
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