PUTRAJAYA, Jan 7 — The Courtroom of Enchantment in the present day dismissed appeals filed by 5 college academics and 19 Universiti Malaya (UM) employees who challenged a authorities’s round requiring them to endure obligatory Covid-19 vaccination.
A 3-member bench comprising Justices Datuk Mohamed Zaini Mazlan, Datuk Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid and Datuk Seri Mohd Radzi Harun discovered no deserves within the appeals introduced by the 2 teams.
Delivering the court docket’s unanimous resolution, Justice Ahmad Kamal mentioned the appellants’ competition that the round had been tainted by irrationality, unreasonableness or disproportionality doesn’t maintain water.
He mentioned the measures undertaken by the federal government was meant to curb the unfold of Covid-19 and to safeguard public well being.
He mentioned the Covid-19 pandemic was a worldwide well being disaster that required coordinated efforts by authorities which included vaccination to regulate transmission.
Justice Ahmad Kamal mentioned the well being ministry recorded over 2,000 instances a day in 2021 and reported over 19,000 deaths.
The court docket awarded the federal government and the UM registrar RM15,000 every in prices.
On October 27, 2021, the 5 academics from 5 totally different colleges in Terengganu, Kelantan, Melaka and Selangor collectively filed their judicial overview software in opposition to six respondents – specifically the schooling minister, the schooling director-general, the Public Service Division (PSD) director-general, the well being minister, the well being director-general, and the Malaysian authorities.
The 19 UM employees members on October 29, 2021, individually filed the same judicial overview software in opposition to the UM registrar, the PSD director-general, the well being minister and the federal government of Malaysia as respondents.
Among the many orders sought by them had been to quash a call to implement Covid-19 vaccination for public servants beneath the federal authorities as per the 2021 round and a declaration that they and different public servants have the liberty to decide on whether or not or to not endure Covid-19 vaccination.
On Dec 14, 2023, the Excessive Courtroom dismissed their judicial overview software, prompting them to attraction to the Courtroom of Enchantment.
On the Courtroom of Enchantment in the present day, senior federal counsel Liew Horng Bin and federal counsel Siti Norashikin Hassanor appeared for the federal government, lawyer Muhammad Amin Anuar, Adrian Yeow, Nurul Zawawi Abd Rahim and Nurazatul Farhana Shahrudin represented the appellants. Lawyer Raja Eileen Soraya Raja Aman and Melanie Lim represented UM registrar. — Bernama
