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Sep 17, 2021 · The plans could require vaccination against COVID-19 and flu for workers who come into contact with patients and those receiving care. A policy like this will have implications for the human rights of NHS staff, who will have to agree to be vaccinated to continue their work.
A mandatory vaccination scheme is where you are required by law to get vaccinated and face punishment if you do not do so. This is different from employers requiring their staff to be vaccinated (sometimes called ‘no jab, no job’).
May 8, 2020 · There's no mandatory vaccine law in UK. First, we've looked at a widely shared video posted on YouTube that claims changes introduced in UK law give the government the power to...
Jun 16, 2021 · Now, care home staff will be required to have Covid-19 vaccinations “to protect residents” - and making jabs compulsory for people in the NHS is also being considered.
- Introduction and Summary
- Vaccine Hesitancy
- Relevant Law
- Compulsory Vaccination and Human Rights Law Compliance
We are academics working in the areas of philosophyand law, with specialisations in, inter alia, moral and political philosophy,biomedical ethics,health law, and human rights law. Our submission pertains to compulsory Covid-19vaccination:a requirement on individuals to undergo vaccination as a condition of release from pandemic-related restrictions...
A Covid-19vaccine promises to be the best means to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on individuals and society. Yet sufficient voluntary uptake of a vaccine cannot be guaranteed.Voluntary vaccine uptake may be limited by ‘vaccine hesitancy’, which the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as ‘the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite t...
This section sets out the law relevant to both our parity arguments: the public health law that governs the control of disease; and mentalhealth law that governs the detention and treatment of individualswith a mental disorder.
We focus on the human rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights(ECHR), since these rights are domestically enforceable in virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998(HRA 1998). The UK isalsoa party to other international human rights law instruments, which we do not treat here. We explain the basis on which a compulsory vaccination measur...
Jan 15, 2022 · Mandatory vaccination schemes must also meet the legal principle of proportionality. As detailed in the LAC19 Principles, the scheme must have a legitimate aim—eg, the reduction of virus transmission or protection of health services. The means chosen must be rationally connected to that aim.
There's a very simple argument in favour of mandating Covid-19 vaccinations. By getting vaccinated you reduce your risk of serious illness. Less serious illnesses mean fewer deaths, and...
