NZ PM Jacinda Ardern is dealt major blow over vaccine passports for cops, military

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Forcing vaccine proof has been ruled not "reasonably justified" by the High Court.

Ken Macon

Mar. 1 2022

The New Zealand High Court upheld a challenge questioning the lawfulness of vaccination passports for the Defense Force and Police employees. In the decision, Justice Francis Cooke said that the mandates, which required employees to present a vaccine passport or lose their jobs, were not a “reasonably justified” violation of the Bill of Rights.

After overturning the Police and Defence order in court, a lawyer for uniformed personnel, Matthew Hague, has written to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and is giving her until Friday to remove “discriminatory” vaccine passports too.

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The challenge was brought to the court by a group of police and Defense Force staff. It questioned the lawfulness of an order requiring frontline workers to get vaccinated or lose their jobs.

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