Parents go to Royal Court over swine flu vaccination

Monday 30th November 2009, 2:57PM GMT.

A patient receives a swine-flu jab

A MOTHER’S fight to stop her daughter being given the swine flu vaccine was due to go before the Royal Court today.

The woman was taken to court by the nine-year-old girl’s father after the mother told her daughter’s school that she was not to have the injection.

This morning, a legal process was due to begin in the court’s family division in front of Family Registrar Vincent Obbard in the form of a preliminary directions hearing. The father wants the court to order that the girl be given the injection, but the 44-year-old mother is arguing that not enough is known about the long-term effects of the vaccine.

However, the father strongly disagrees and has initiated the civil proceedings in the court’s family division.

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