Wed Oct 19, 2022 – 4:48 pm EDTWed Oct 19, 2022 – 4:54 pm EDT
(Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms) — The Justice Centre is announcing that legal counsel for Sheila Annette, who has been prohibited by Alberta Health Services (AHS) from receiving a life-saving transplant unless she first receives the COVID-19 vaccines, will appear in the Alberta Court of Appeal at 10 a.m. on Thursday, October 20, 2022 to challenge the requirement.
Lewis has a terminal condition and needs an organ transplant to survive. In November 2021, she filed a lawsuit in the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench asking the court to uphold her Charter-protected right to conscience, bodily autonomy, freedom to choose without coercion, and freedom from discrimination.
Counsel for Lewis are asking the Court of Appeal to overturn the July 2022 decision of Justice R. P. Belzil of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench.
In this decision, Belzil ruled that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not apply to either the requirements of Alberta Health Services (AHS) or to the requirements of the organ transplant team at the Alberta hospital which has denied Lewis’ request for a transplant.
In other words, this ruling upheld the
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