Falconer v Commissioner of Police [No 2]

• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Validity of executive direction
  4. › Commissioner of Police direction mandating COVID-19 vaccination
  5. › Whether direction infringed right to bodily integrity
  6. › Whether Commissioner had authority to infringe right to bodily integrity
  7. › Principle of legality
  8. › Police Act 1892 (WA), s 5
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Statutory construction
  3. › Protective provisions
  4. › Whether s 202(3) of Public Health Act 2016 (WA) constrained power to issue employer direction
  5. › Scope of protection against adverse employment consequences for compliance with emergency directions
  6. › Public Health Act 2016 (WA), s 202(3)
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Police
  3. › Powers of Commissioner of Police
  4. › General control and management of Police Force
  5. › Scope of power to direct vaccination as condition of service
  6. › Whether power extends to directing medical treatment
  7. › Police Act 1892 (WA), s 5
• 1. Constitutional Law
  2. › Principle of legality
  3. › Right to bodily integrity
  4. › Whether statutory power authorised infringement of fundamental right
  5. › Whether clear and unambiguous language required
  6. › Whether necessary implication sufficient

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