Top Lawyers to Challenge Melbourne’s 5km CCP Virus Restriction

Top Lawyers to Challenge Melbourne’s 5km CCP Virus Restriction
Members of Victoria Police patrol through Chadstone Shopping Centre on September 20, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
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Prominent Australian lawyers Brett Walker and Michael Wyles are backing a Mornington Peninsula hotelier to challenge the Victorian government’s controversial COVID-19 five-kilometre travel restriction.

Walker, who was part of the Ruby Princess Special Commissions inquiry earlier this year, will team up with  Wyles, a vocal critic of the Andrews government’s lockdown measures, to represent Julian Gerner the owner of a bar and restaurant in Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula.