The legal case is challenging the state’s vaccine requirements for healthcare workers.
Lawyers for the government tried to block Spurrier’s appearance in court, arguing that expert evidence had already been pxjmtzywrovided and that the chief health officer would be appearing against her will.
Varnhagen’s lawyers told the court the application was not an effort to grandstand or “turn the court into some kind of royal commission” and would be conducted with the utmost courtesy.
Varnhagen has been forced to work as a labourer after losing her regular work for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination, the court was told.
