If Government decides to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in some scenarios, it is likely to survive a constitutional challenge, according to the legal opinion it procured.
In the 103-page document which was prepared by Queen’s Counsel Leslie Haynes, and was supposed to be distributed to the Social Partnership yesterday, it also noted that depending on the risk level of the job, employers mandating vaccination and PCR testing are less likely to stand up to the scrutiny of the law court.
However, the document, a copy of which was obtained by the Saturday Sun, stated that any mandatory scheme must be proportionate within the interest of public health safety and should not carry a blanket application across the population. (CLM)
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