On 7 November 2023 a Malaysian politician was acquitted by the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur from the charge of spreading fake news, regarding facts occurred in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 67-year old detainee claimed that detention during the pandemic put his life in danger.
On 21 November 2023, the Spanish Constitutional Court has concluded that the government should have allowed the International Women’s Day demonstration organized by two trade unions in Madrid on 8 March 2021, during the ‘third wave’ of the COVID-19 pandemic. This marks the first time that the Court has endorsed a protest during a state of emergency.
The Green Pass is constitutional. The Italian Council of State states that measures to control and reduce contagion listed in the Green Pass are conforming to the Italian Constitution.
The Act was found incompatible with several articles of the Basic Law.
On 4 June 2021, a man entered a shop without a face mask. For this reason, he was held liable for violating the federal law against the spread of human contagious diseases (“LEp”) and the ordinance establishing measures to curb COVID-19. He was thus fined and condemned to pay 200 Swiss francs.
An employee's increased risk of contracting COVID-19 due to being unvaccinated for a personal choice cannot be considered a disability.
On 7 November 2023, the Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the judicial decision to vaccinate a minor against COVID-19 after parental disagreement.
A New Zealand judge ordered that three kids receive vaccine jabs in spite of their mother’s wishes.
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission of Ernakulam has ordered an insurance company to pay an insured person an amount comprising a claim under the health policy issued by the company, compensation money and litigation costs.
On 31 October 2023, the High Court of England and Wales (Commercial Court) issued a judgment in a case concerning a £2 million dispute between three travel agents and Ryanair over flight refunds for package holidays, with a judgment favoring the former.
The Italian Constitutional Court has held that the vaccine mandate established for people working in health facilities is reasonable, regardless of the employees’ activities and working arrangements.
All of the claims reviewed related to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and were based on religious beliefs.
In October 2023, a gynecologist in Luxembourg City has received a three-month suspension from practicing medicine as a result of her deliberate dissemination of false information during patient consultations.
A petition asked the government to disclose documents about the fund’s operations, according to the Right of Information Act.
The Executive Order was meant to protect frontline healthcare workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, not surgeons performing elective procedures unrelated to the ongoing public health emergency.
The key issue in this case is whether the damages attributed to the regulatory measures can be the responsibility of the State.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) won its appeal against being ordered to pay $156,462 to Seneca College for supporting a legal case against a COVID-19 vaccine policy, as the Court of Appeal of Ontario deemed the initial cost award flawed and affirmed the right of organizations like JCCF to engage in public interest litigation and raise funds for it.
On 22 September 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially overturned the district court's summary judgment that favored Hyatt Corporation in a class action lawsuit filed by former California employees of Hyatt, i.e. a hotel corporation.
In an oral judgment release on 23 October 2023 but dated March 2022, a Singapore court ordered two insurance companies from Singapore to pay a business entity (i.e. a resort) based in Thailand, due to the losses incurred in the years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dismissing a motion for permission to review, the Supreme Court has expressed the impossibility to decide whether the pandemic should have required the suspension of civil proceedings in the whole national territory.
On 21 September 2023, the Registry Court of Lima upheld the decision to refuse registration of the election of the board of directors of the Unión de Galleros del Perú association, which was held in a non-face-to-face general assembly.
On 22 September 2023, the High Court of Madras heard a petition for a writ of mandamus filed by the wife of a man who worked as a scavenger during the COVID-19 pandemic and died of the disease in October 2020.
On 19 September 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court has issued a judgment clarifying certain aspects of remote work, specifically regarding whether companies can deduct time and pay from teleworkers for power outages or internet disconnections beyond their control and whether the time taken for bathroom breaks can be considered as rest time.
The Valais Canton Court has annulled the fine imposed on two parents who had refused to send their child to school while the use of face masks was mandatory.
This judgment by the Columbian Constitutional Court is an interlocutory decision on the unconstitutional situation in the penitentiary system in Colombia. Following verification procedures in temporary detention centres, the Court found a precarious situation and outbreaks of various diseases, including COVID-19.
The settlement with a Florida based automotive management company is part of the investigations the US Justice Department undertook to combat COVID-19 related fraud.
The South Australia Employment Tribunal has dismissed the claim of over a hundred people working for public health facilities which challenged the South Australia Department for Health and Wellbeing’s (DHW) vaccine policy.
On 7 September 2023, the High Court of Australia rejected an appeal from a national airline company which sought to overturn a previous federal court decision, concerning the dismissal of more than 1,000 workers and staff in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Delhi High Court has ordered that compensation must be paid to the husband and son of a health worker deceased of COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020. The husband of the deceased had filed a petition arguing that, in spite of the State Government’s decision of 13 May 2020 concerning payments to families of employees dead while on COVID duty, they had not received any payment.
It is necessary to build on the COVID-19 experience, Supreme Court of British Columbia holds.
On 9 October 2023, the Court of Appeals of Santiago, Chile annulled several fines imposed by the National Immigration Service on two airlines for transporting foreigners into the country during the COVID-19 pandemic without meeting the necessary health requirements. The court deemed that applying the penalties for actions taken before the enactment of the law was arbitrary.
On 3 October 2023, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled again on the responsibility of high-level prison officials in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak at the Saint Quentin prison, holding that the claims brought by the heirs of the prisoners deceased as a result of the above outbreak are not barred by immunity.
On 28 September 2023, the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has ruled that the Community of Madrid must pay a €10,000 indemnity for the death of a 79-year-old COVID-19 patient who was treated in the Emergency Department of Ramón y Cajal Hospital in 2020.
The French government has been ordered to pay compensation to the family of a doctor who died of COVID-19 due to a shortage of masks. The court recognized the state’s responsibility in maintaining an insufficient stock of masks before the COVID-19 pandemic and awarded compensation to the family. This ruling highlights a “loss of opportunity” for individuals who were more exposed to the risk of infection.
The plaintiff had argued that the decision was unconstitutional because it violated the principle of equality by introducing a discrimination among the potential recipients of the subsidies.
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