Thread by @AdamWagner1

The courts have been reluctant to intervene with Covid restrictions but I do think there will come a time - perhaps it has even come - that there are decent prospects for a legal challenge to a refusal to allow a business such as a nightclub to open to double vaccinated customers

I appreciate there are possible arguments against such as strains getting through vaccines but the risk is significantly reduced that it is arguably below the risk of any other reason for shutting venues and closing businesses.

Article 1 of protocol 1 of the European convention on human rights requires that any interference with the ‘peaceful enjoyment of property’ must be proportionate. Big socioeconomic decisions such as this are hard to challenge as the state is given a wide margin. But…

… at some point soon the continued closure of a small number of businesses when the balancing factors have radically changed due to vaccination will become potentially disproportionate. Even a challenge which failed would set the boundaries for decisions in the coming months

For those responding about the idea of vaccine passports (which I’m not necessarily against) my thoughts are here

newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…