Dr Anvil wishes to challenge the decision of the Minister to deny the permit. advise him of
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Dr Lionel Anvil, is an avowed libertarian. Since 2021, he has considered himself an adherent of the Sovereign Citizen movement, a loosely affiliated movement that believes that most modern laws are invalid because they fail to accord to diffuse underlying constitutional principles (largely know only to them). In Australia, the movement has adopted the Australian Red Ensign as their symbol, and have been prominent in the various anti-lockdown and anti-vax protests over the last two years.
The Sovereign Citizen movement is recognized by leading legal academics as a form of pseudo-legalist belief, that borrows the forms of legal methods and reasoning but is detached from the core substance and norms. Many adherents have brought spurious and vexatious claims in courts throughout the country, alleging, for example, that judges are improperly appointed, that legislation is invalid because it conflicts with Magna Carta, or that the only valid law is Admiralty Law.
Dr Anvil is furious with the new Public Health Regulations and is particularly incensed about the proposed Vaccine Directive. He convenes an organizing committee of likeminded persons, the Freedom Collective, with the aim of holding a protest at the park outside the Smyth site on the 17th of June.
On 10th of June, at 12pm, Dr Anvil lodges an application in the prescribed form applying to hold a protest against the Public Health Regulations at Hind marshy Park, which is located directly opposite Smyth. The front part of the park in within 200m of Smyth, but the majority of the part is outside that zone.
At 4:55pm on Friday 16th of June, Dr Anvil receives an email from the Minister's office outlining that the permit application had been refused. The letter outlines that
"The Minister has formed the view that, in light of relevant Practice Directions, and due to your association with Sovereign Citizen movement, the protest or political activity cannot be conducted in a manner that is consistent with the Public Health Regulation."
Attached to the letter was a copy of the Political Action Directives Practice Directions, a policy set out by the Minister on the afternoon of the 9th of June which includes the following provision:
Dr Anvil is incensed, not only with the result, but with the delay in making the decision so late in the piece. He feels that if a decision had been made earlier, it would have been possible to make a new application, but that this opportunity is now lost.
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