A Supreme Court judge has lashed lawyers representing police staff and health workers who are fighting their employers’ vaccine mandates, after the case was further delayed on Monday.
One application is seven police staff fighting against Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll, and the other is 13 health workers challenging Queensland Health Director-General John Wakefield. On Monday, Dominic Villa SC – acting for the police and health workers – said he had prepared legal arguments for the public health and vaccine mandate orders made in response to the Delta variant.However, these orders were updated when the Omicron variant took hold, so Mr Villa asked for both cases to be adjourned, so he and his team could rework their arguments.“These matters came on in September on the basis that it was urgent and there was a hearing on that basis,” she said.