This legal precedent has now had a trickle-down effect on all outstanding court cases and charges laid during the pandemic.

The 90-page court decision followed a legal challenge to pandemic public health orders filed by two churches and a business owner in December 2020 alleging that CMOH orders were unlawful and unconstitutional. The ruling invalidated all public health orders issued by the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) from March 2020 until September 2021 on the basis they were enacted outside of the powers of the PHA because they were issued by cabinet rather than then-chief medical officer Dr. The church continues to meet and praise the Lord they do. His wife, Erin Coates, cares for their children without him. Pastor James Coates and the church continued to assemble as Christ directs. The court decision was made July 31 by Court of King’s Bench Justice Barbara Romaine in the R. The Albertan civil magistrate required Grace Life Church to close its doors. “We have had hundreds of these COVID prosecutions that were sitting in abeyance, pending the outcome of another case.” “I predicted this was going to have a ripple effect,” Mr. On Sunday, February 14, Coates held a church service at Grace Life located in Spruce Grove, Alberta, in violation of a January 29 order by Alberta Health Services (AHS) demanding that the church.

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