normally welcome recourse to courts by ppl saying vaccine passports illegal - cos shows commitment to democratic institutions.

But International Criminal Court such an absurd choice - compared to European Court of Human Rights - that this looks pure stuntery. +
+ anyone can write to the ICC prosecutor. It’s not a formal legal process. Which is generally good, but here signifies that it’s being chosen to avoid the scrutiny a case would get in British or European courts +
+ and if the “lawyer” representing isn’t qualified to act as a lawyer (not a solicitor or barrister, as seems to be case here) that also suggests your using “legal process” as a stunt, and not genuinely / seriously.
Why make a hopeless complaint? If you’re grifting, it helps with £££. If you want credibility with your (hoped-for) followers it helps. And it costs you nothing - with no risks of paying any legal costs.

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Tl;dr that claim is bogus - but lays the ground for massive extension of the surveillance state.

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did national media publish this sort of legal falseness before Brexit? We can discuss what s.73 *means* but you only have to read it to see it does not “state”this.

Or is it just a feature of the Spectator becoming a blog?
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