Vaccinations spark legal wars

WARRING parents are taking legal action over Covid-19 child vaccinations with judges ruling more often than not in favour of kids getting jabbed.

Legal experts say there has also been a rise in the number of parents ignoring consent all together and having their children vaccinated against the virus, in spite of their ex.

It comes as two killer Covid-19 variants — XBB and BQ. 1 — hit Australia with the school holidays fast approaching and a new wave of cases on the way.

Several cases have come to a head as the Family Court of Australia list fills up with immunisation spats between ex-partners.

In one case, a mother took legal action against the father of her children in a bid to prevent him from taking the children to the doctor to be jabbed.

The mother argued that she was not an anti-vaxxer but wanted more time to consider the potential health effects of Covid-19.

The father said having the children vaccinated against the virus would benefit the wider community and used the evidence of an expert doctor, who said side effects were rare.

The Family Court judge ruled in favour of the father and the children were vaccinated.

In another case, a father tried to prevent the mother from getting their two children jabbed for the second time after the youngsters received their first Covid-19 vaccine dose without the man’s consent. In this case, the Family Court ruled that a second dose was in the best interests of the children.

In a third case, a father took the mother to court after she objected to their two children, aged 11 and 16, from being vaccinated against Covid-19. The judge ruled in favour of the children getting jabbed, as long as the older child consented.

President of the Australian Medical Association Stephen Robson said parents should be getting their children vaccinated as soon as possible.