Local Authority Takes Mother to Court for Refusing to Vaccinate Severely Disabled Son

A legal battle will return to the high court after two judges ruled a 23-year-old mentally disabled man should be given the COVID-19 vaccines in spite of his mother’s wishes and a specialist report warning the jab could cause him serious harm. The case will set a legal precedent in the matter of who decides whether adult children who cannot consent should receive state-sanctioned treatment where the parents do not want them to, with the judge who made the initial order calling it “an ethical dilemma in an untested area.” The unnamed mother has put out anonymous videos giving her son’s first name as “Tom” in a bid to raise funds to pay her legal costs....