12/06/2025
Copied and pasted from Jayden Beale in Qld
Hi all, this is Jayden again who you may recall is running the large human rights case in Queensland against the government’s COVID-19 vax mandates imposed on the general public (not in an employment context) in 2021 and 2022. This is the case that has 13 senior experts from around Australia giving evidence, and which is running every key argument on behalf of the public interest against COVID-19 vax mandates (and mandates in general). I just wanted to give you all a big update on this case, including news on some significant developments which had delayed the trial.
Last week, the Tribunal handling this case handed down an extremely important decision in our favour regarding allegations by me that Queensland Health’s lawyers had effectively fabricated evidence to ‘cover up’ damaging public statements made by the QLD chief health officer which showed he did NOT give the vax mandates to stop transmission. In response to these allegations, Queensland Health refused to answer them and instead transferred the matter to their top legal office, Crown Law, and applied to have the entire case thrown out instead. After an exchange of lengthy legal arguments between myself and the government’s barristers, the Tribunal rejected ALL of the government’s arguments and is now considering the scope of disclosure to be provided to me which will likely confirm that the government’s lawyers tried to mislead the Tribunal and lie about the chief health officer’s reasons for giving the mandates.
In August last year, I wrote a letter to Queenland Health’s lawyers showing them various public press conferences by the chief health officer where he stated he did NOT give the mandates to stop transmission. I told Queensland Health’s lawyers this was concerning because they have pleaded in the defence, with no supporting evidence, that the chief health officer DID in fact give the mandates to stop transmission. In their filed defence, Queensland Health claimed the chief health officer relied upon a statement by ATAGI as the factual basis for the claim that the mandates were given to stop transmission. Suspecting that this was untrue, I asked Queensland Health to disclose all records in their possession which contained just a single reference or mention of that statement by ATAGI in relation to the chief health officer’s knowledge and decision making at the time. I gave Queensland Health two months to respond, but on the day before their response was due, the chief health officer suddenly announced in the Courier Mail his resignation, and Queensland Health then never responded to my letter and disclosure request.
Remarkably, during this same period, the two Queensland Health lawyers handling the case also suddenly resigned.
In the weeks following, Queensland Health effectively stopped responding to any emails from me and went dark for several months. Then out of the blue, the government’s top legal office, Crown Law, emailed me saying they now had carriage of the case and without warning, applied to have my case completely dismissed while still refusing to respond to any of my allegations that the previous lawyers had fabricated facts to cover up the chief health officers’ public statements.
What ensued was 4 months of back and forth legal arguments in which the government was ultimately completely defeated in legal reasoning.
I just want to quickly and briefly summarise the significance of the above events so you all know exactly what happened here: the chief health officer in 2021 gave the COVID-19 vax mandates on the public likely for an unlawful reason, and then likely had his lawyers cover up his decision by fabricating the factual record and changing the reason for why he gave the mandates. When I put these allegations to Queenland Health, the chief health officer suddenly resigned, they refused to answer the allegations and instead did everything they could to try to have the case thrown out. Thankfully, they did not succeed and the matter will now continue to trial on a new timetable.
As a side issue, but nonetheless important, Queensland Health also tried to argue that our experts had NO right to see the chief health officer’s evidence for the vax mandates BEFORE they drafted and filed their expert reports. I argued that this was ridiculous, and the Tribunal agree with me.
Because of the above legal battle I had to engage in, there are unfortunately now a few more months to go before we get a trial. However, I now foresee no further roadblocks and I am excited to finally get the chief health officer in court, including his lawyers, and holding them accountable for what they did to us during the COVID-19 outbreak.
