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Application to have Covid vaccine given to man with severe disabilities
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent England and Wales Court of Protection case which dealt with an application by a health body to be allowed to administer a Covid 19 vaccine to a man with serious disabilities
In March 2021, the Manchester County Court (Court of Protection) delivered its judgment in a case in which it had to determine whether it was in the best interests of a man with severe disabilities to have a declaration made to enable a Clinical Commissioning Group (‘CCG’) to administer a vaccination to him against Covid 19. It was not in dispute that the man, who is in his early thirties, lacked capacity to make that decision for himself.
The BGEA put adverts for the festival on local public buses. (Blackpool)
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Manchester County Court Judge Claire Evans ruled in favour of Franklin Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in the Lancashire Festival of Hope advertising campaign case.
In 2018, the English city of Blackpool hosted the evangelistic event, which was attended by 9,000 people. To promote the event, the BGEA put adverts for the festival on local public buses.
However, just one day after the campaign began, the posters were removed by Blackpool Council and the local transport company, “as a result of us listening and acting on customer and public feedback which we aim to do at all times,” said Jane Cole, Managing Director at Blackpool Transport.
04-06-2021
After a legal fight that lasted several years, evangelist Franklin Graham has won an important case for religious freedom in the UK.
Manchester County Court Judge Claire Evans has ruled that the 2018 Lancashire Festival of Hope with Franklin Graham was discriminated against when ads promoting the event were pulled from buses in Blackpool, England in an effort to ban him from preaching the gospel.
During September 2018, the Blackpool Borough Council and Blackpool Transport Services Limited removed bus advertisements displaying the words Time for Hope, citing that members of the community complained about Graham s association with the festival.
The transportation company said they received feedback from members of the community who were concerned over the evangelist s religious beliefs on marriage and sexuality.
(RNS) The judge said the borough council’s actions ‘discriminated on the ground of religion’ and showed ‘wholesale disregard for the right to freedom of expression.’