300 healthcare workers across Italy have launched a “democratic battle” against mandatory vaccination in the form of a legal challenge against their Government. Barron’s has the story.
The case, brought by professionals throughout northern Italy, will be heard on July 14th.
“This isn’t a battle by ‘anti-vaxxers’ but a democratic battle,” Constitutional Lawyer Daniele Granara, who helped build up the case, was cited as saying in the Giornale di Brescia newspaper.
“We force people to take a risk under threat of no longer being allowed to exercise their profession,” he added.
Granara is also defending dozens of caregivers who have been suspended from work for refusing to be vaccinated.
Italy passed a law in April obliging anyone working in public or private social health positions, including in pharmacies and doctors’ offices, to get vaccinated against Covid or be suspended without pay, unless their employer can reassign them to a less sensitive position.
After the elderly and vulnerable, caregivers including teachers were the first to be vaccinated in Italy.
While the British GMB Union has warned that more than a third of its members in social care would consider quitting if vaccines are mandated, the Government has not yet been faced by legal action on the matter.
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Very encouraging news.
Yep: those Italians are always giving people offers which they can’t refuse!
Working for the NHS, I for one will be taking legal action if mandatory vaccination is imposed for healthcare workers here.
Good to hear. My partner will join you as I am sure will many others.
If you crowdfund it, I’ll gladly contribute.
I will too ….. or maybe there will is a big legal case that Helenf and others could join – I would contribute to that too perhaps we could all could..
Me too!
Thanks guys!
I pray that this succeeds. I would also contribute to crowdfund.
I work for the NHS too. I will not have a vaccine under coercion. We will need strong legal representation but I trust the right people will step forward.
On what basis will you be taking legal action?
We’ve left the EU. If parliament mandates it all you can do is write to your MP.
Parliament is sovereign in the U.K. The courts just enforce what it dictates
Im not sure what leaving the EU has to do with it, we have our own laws and rights. I’m no expert but workers have rights for fair treatment, under the Equality Act 2010 which requires that people are treated equally, unless there is a good justification, This might be able to be used somehow?
In the Common Law tradition the Courts decide the Law applicable to a case by interpreting statutes and applying precedents. If you can make a case it might set a precedent? Nothing ventured….
While we have left the EU, the European Convention On Human Rights continues to be incorporated into English law via the Human Rights Act. The ECHR is entirely separate from the EU. While Parliament is sovereign, the HRA incorporates a European limitation to this sovereignty. The Courts can read wording into legislation to make it compatible with the ECHR or make a declaration of incompatibility. It is possible for a litigant’s case to progress through the domestic courts to the European Court Of Human Rights – this will undoubtedly happen on this issue. The key article is Article 8 of the ECHR – the question is whether mandating a vaccine can be proportionate with interfering with this right – probably not. Practically, the best course of action is not to resign, but to be sacked and then raise human rights issues in the Employment Tribunal.
Parliament is sovereign but would it not need to bring in legislation if there’s no current legal basis for whatever ministerial diktat is brought in?
Parliament is sovereign, but it can be challenged in the courts if an Act of Parliament is deemed to infringe human rights legislation (and the UK is still in the ECHR).
Parliament is sovereign through the People.
You don’t know much about Law if you think there will be no grounds.
Utter tosh. As you put it, “the courts enforce..”, but that has nothing to do with legal challenges. Consider, for example, the Brexit shenanigans, immigrant deportation and a host of other precedents. It is, at least pro tem, possible for any citizen to challenge injustices. It is, or was, what distinguishes a democracy under a rule of law, and differentiates the UK from, for example, North Korea, China and now Hong Kong.
Under the Human Rights Act 1997, which enacts the European Convention of Human Right into UK law. Plus an appeal can still be made to the European Court of Human Rights as the UK is a signatory to the Convention.
Not everything ‘European’ is run by the EU or dependant on our membership of it.
These ‘vaccines’ are still going through long term safety clinical trials until 2023, and are authorised under temporary approval. Big pharma are exempt from any liability and the U.K. Government has a cap on liability of £120k. People however have to prove that the vaccines caused >60% disability. To put it mildly, populations around the world are being treated as lab rats, To answer your question. Have you heard of the Nuremberg Code?
As normal you are being your usual cottonwool brained self. For the record it is absolutely nothing to do with be being in or out of the EU. It’s simply about who decides whether you should be injected with a life shortening toxic witch’s brew. I would guess you’ve already had your dose of poison and so with a bit of luck you won’t be pestering us for too much longer.
You’re using the wrong orifice,
Idiot.
Common Law says that if you do not agree by contract then you cannot be forced.
Helena — Well done.. I really admire people like you ..
While the British GMB Union has warned that more than a third of its members in social care would consider quitting if vaccines are mandated
Quit and do what exactly? Once furlough ends the unemployment queue will be massive
Claim unemployment, find some other poorly paid shit job? it won’t be much of a financial problem for people working in care as they are some of the worst paid in the country. Throughout this shit-show these people have been working hard caring for the most vulnerable, while multiple testing every week, I both applaud and am grateful for them. I hope they leave their jobs in droves , let the Tyrants in charge sort that out! They deserve much better.
I’m a jobless Nurse as from tonight so be it I will not bend to these tyrants.
I’m truly sorry, I don’t take people being unemployed lightly. But I think the Tyrants are making rods for their own back, and really underestimate the commitment of a lot of people.
It’s very sad Teddy. Hope that we are thinking about you might be a small help.
Thanks Wendy appreciate that.Mike x
I hope you get another position. Have you considered private work?
If only. I’m 53 and pretty useless I’ve Nursed since I was 19.I hate it from top to bottom.They even raided my NHS pension last month for no reason!?As Morrisey once said about applying for the position of back scrubber in the YWCA I could do that but not many openings in Caldicot.
Please look at the private sector – there are all kinds of different care jobs that people need
This is a very good idea — Teddy there are so many people out there who need help and would would willingly pay…
Teddy people like you are hero’s. This is not much about Britain that makes me proud anymore but nurses and care workers like you, Helenf, Lilac Blue who are prepared to stand up to these evil people do make me know there are still Great people here — I wish all of you all the luck in the world —- I truly do…..
Different place and all that but didn’t work in Texas and so far somehow none of our challenges seem to have done much. Dark times indeed.
Think of it in the terms of the Jihadists against the infidel. The Government are the Jihadists those who will not accept the “vaccine” are the infidel and must and will be destroyed. Our Governments are the equivalent of Jihadists they are fighting a holy war.
History repeats itself. For all we think we are progressive, basic instincts kick in for many and the powers that be exploit it.
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Another shift bites the dust.You need a Mask? er No thanks,lateral flow test?,No thanks,Are you Vaccinated?.No of your fucking beeswax.It’s going to long Night for that pushy Romanian Nurse.
Probably the last time I walk into a Care Home.
I really can’t see an end to people’s blindness and stupidity.The majority of Care Home staff are brainwashed even those that protest that process.
Both my brother and his wife work in care homes. They won’t be vaxxed. They are both holding on at the moment because their employers aren’t saying or doing anything. In the case of my sister in law they are already understaffed so they really don’t want to lose her. I don’t know how it will end but it’s both cruel and short-sighted.
It’s appallingly cruel to the
prisonersresidents. Caring care workers are rare birds, and extremely hard to replace. Can you see all those jobless graduate dorks, with their poxy Masters degrees, taking a job which involves toileting a senile old man?Viva la resistenza!
Its about time people said NO and said it loud!
Yes, I am flying 4000 miles to take part in the next protest march in London – I flew the same distance to take part in the one in April —- It is vital we all do what we can to say NO to this. I have just listened to two of the world most famous doctors Professor Bhakti and also to Dr Peter McCulloch – and we have GOT to say no to this EVIL
At last. An article which really is worth reading in full.
It seems to me that if the vaccine was safe, effective and necessary, there would be no need for any imposed vaccination of anyone.
Hooray — I wish The British would do the same.. We are in Dr Mengle territory –
These Jabs are Experimental and when listening to some of the worlds leading virologists telling us what to expect from taking them it is terrifying.. How dare we be treated like lab rats….
It is wrong on so many levels to impose mandatory medication. For a start it directly breaks the Nuremberg Code, which all countries signed up to after WWII, which states: The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results will justify the performance of the experiment. The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment. Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even… Read more »
The sad thing is it appears the code is worthless, just like the Geneva convention was to the agressors in WW2, and just like the human rights laws. Government sign them as a virtue signalling piece of theatre, then they completely ignore them to achieve their own ends. I no longer trust Governments, they are populated by meglamaniacs whose self interest and conceit over rides any convention or law.
Very few of them appear to have any qualifications for the positions they hold either. Hancock, Health Secretary – degrees in philosophy and politics.
Just maybe, all these shenanigans and thanks to the minority of voices standing up for their democratic rights (THANK YOU) there might actually be some scientific debate down the line into the need, efficacy and harms of ALL vaccines and even, dare I say, the idea of contagion and the whole germ theory of disease!! Hoopdeedo!