The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) has ruled that the lead judge who overturned the initial ruling in the COVID-19 vaccine mandate case in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was not a justice of appeal at the time of the February 2025 ruling.
In a written judgment on July 7, High Court judge Raulston L. A. Glasgow quashed the appointment of Eddy Ventose, a St. Lucia-born academic and jurist, as a Justice of Appeal of the ECSC with effect from Jan. 8, 2024.
Justice Ventose wrote the 2-1 majority verdict handed down on Feb. 12, 2025, overturning the March 2023 decision of then-High Court judge Esco Henry, now an appeal judge, who had declared the mandate unconstitutional and void.
Justice of Appeal Paul Webster agreed with Ventose, while Justice of Appeal Gerhard Wallbank wrote a dissenting judgment, saying he would have dismissed the government’s appeal.
The vaccine mandate case is awaiting a final determination by the London-based Privy Council, SVG’s highest court.
https://www.iwnsvg.com/2026/07/14/court-overturns-appointment-of-lead-judge-in-vaccine-mandate-case/
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