50 Plus Top Legal Figures Sign Letter Against Sweeping Victorian Pandemic Bill

50 Plus Top Legal Figures Sign Letter Against Sweeping Victorian Pandemic Bill
Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews speaks at a media conference in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 24, 2021. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
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Prominent legal figures are continuing their vocal opposition to impending pandemic laws that will allow the government to “rule the state of Victoria by decree.”

The letter, signed by 59 members of the Victorian Bar, warned that the Public Health and Wellbeing (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021 gave “unlimited and practically unreviewable power” to the health minister and premier.

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