The Covid controversies may have fallen from the public eye, but they still continue. Thus, an Australian doctor, Dr. William Bay, spoke out about the side effects of the Covid vaxxes. He received a medical registration suspension notice from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) in 2022. He then filed a lawsuit against the AHPRA, the Medical Board of Australia and the state government to Queensland’s Supreme Court in November 2022, and then applied to have the case heard by he High court of Australia. This application was rejected on technicalities, but Dr Bray has appealed that and the case now awaits to see if the defendants contest the appeal. As the unconstitutionality of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law is now being challenged, this case will be a significant one for the future if he wins.
“An Australian doctor suspended for speaking out on the harmful side effects of COVID-19 vaccines has appealed a High Court’s decision after it refused to adjudicate his lawsuit, which was filed against the country’s medical regulators.
In August 2022, Dr. William Bay, a Queensland GP registrar, received a medical registration suspension notice from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) after he interrupted a national conference in late July and told the medical experts there to stop forcing people to take COVID-19 vaccines.
The medical regulator considered Dr. Bay’s action not in line with its COVID-19 vaccine policies and posed serious risks to persons, and decided to put his medical licence on hold.
The GP registrar filed a lawsuit against the AHPRA, the Medical Board of Australia and the state government to Queensland’s Supreme Court in November 2022 to regain his registration.
He later applied to have his case removed to the High Court–Australia’s highest court–for adjudication in March 2023.
In making the decision, Dr. Bay said his opponents tried to have the lawsuit dismissed in the Supreme Court.
He also believed the matter of his lawsuit contained a significant level of public interest and importance that it needed to be heard in a court with national jurisdiction.
High Court Rejects Dr. Bay’s Application
In early June, the High Court issued a notice rejecting Dr. Bay’s application to have his lawsuit adjudicated by the court.
In the court document seen by The Epoch Times, Justices Michelle Marjorie Gordon and Simon Harry Peter Steward said Dr. Bay’s application did not identify any basis to justify the High Court’s interference with the Supreme Court of Queensland’s processes.
They also noted that the Supreme Court of Queensland would be deprived of the benefit of the reasoning if the High Court approved Dr. Bay’s application.
“In the circumstances, including the interests of the parties and the public interest, the Court is not persuaded that it is appropriate to make the order sought,” Justices Gordon and Steward said.
The justices then awarded the cost against Dr. Bay.
Appealing the High Court’s Notice
Following the High Court’s notice, Dr. Bay launched an appeal against the decision.
In the appeal, he alleged that Justices Gordon and Steward made errors in judgement by mistaking the whole of the proceeding with part of the matter of the lawsuit.
He pointed out that the matter of his lawsuit was not about AHPRA’s application in the Supreme Court, as stated in the High Court’s notice, but about his application to review AHPRA’s suspension of his medical registration, which he believed was invalid due to multiple errors of law.
Dr. Bay said he was advised that he could not appeal the High Court’s decision as it was made by the highest level of justice in Australia and thus was unable to be challenged.
However, the suspended GP still decided to proceed with the appeal, which was later allowed by the High Court on July 4.
Dr. Bay believed the High Court’s decision to allow the filing of his appeal application indicated that the court was objective, just and lawful despite peoples’ fears of corruption in the judiciary.
“It would have been very easy for them to have dismissed my filing of the appeal as they have so much power, but they chose the harder, more moral and lawful path, and this gives me great hope in an inevitable victory in the High Court on my substantive matters regarding the unconstitutionality of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law,” he told The Epoch Times.
At present, Dr. Bay is waiting for his opponents to decide whether they will contest the appeal, with the next step to be determined by the High Court.”