Kerry Cotterill, who received an infringement notice during a lockdown protest last year, argued the Andrews government’s stay-at-home laws limit political speech.
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Lawyers suing security companies that worked in Victoria’s bungled hotel quarantine program need to work out which hotel the COVID-19 strain that killed their client’s father came from before the class action can proceed.
Law firm Arnold Thomas & Becker is pursuing Unified Security Group and MSS Security on behalf of lead plaintiff Dragan Markovic, whose father contracted COVID-19 in a nursing home and died at the end of August in hospital.
The last photo of Dragan Markovic with his father Nenad Markovic before the elderly man s death from COVID-19.
He was among the 800 people who died in Victoria’s second wave, with 99.8 per cent of cases traced to outbreaks in the quarantine program at two of the hotels: the Rydges on Swanston and the Stamford Plaza.
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The Victorian taxpayer will be forced to foot the legal bill over a failed challenge to its COVID-19 curfew.
Mornington Peninsula cafe owner Michelle Loielo launched legal action against the government claiming lockdown restrictions caused a 99 per cent drop in her revenue.
Ms Loielo, an aspiring Liberal Party MP, filed the lawsuit on September 14 against former deputy public health commander Michelle Giles, claiming the curfew was unreasonable, disproportionate and violated the human rights of millions of Victorians.
Michelle Loielo (right) filed a suit in Victoria s Supreme Court in September, saying she had lost 99 per cent of business under the tough restrictions
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