Court decision finds vaccination mandate unlawful for some | ABC News

A judge has ruled that mandating COVID-19 vaccines for some Queensland frontline workers was unlawful based on human rights grounds.

Dozens of Queensland Police Service (QPS) and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) staff challenged their workplace mandates in the Supreme Court in 2022, after they refused to comply with the directives.

The two groups were testing the legality of the directions on several grounds of the Judicial Review Act (JRA) and the Human Rights Act (HRA).

On Tuesday, Justice Glenn Martin found the applicants "had not established any ground under the JRA of unreasonableness".

Health minister Shannon Fentiman wanted to make it clear that the ruling was in relation to how the directives were made, not the directives themselves.

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