On Monday morning, the counsel for the Belgian State asked the Brussels Court of Appeal to overturn its decision ordering the State to lift “all coronavirus measures,” which was handed down on 31 March.
According to the State’s counsel, the legal basis for the Ministerial Decrees restricting people’s freedoms in the context of the coronavirus crisis is sufficient, contrary to what the court ruled.
For their part, the lawyers of the League for Human Rights – which had taken the case to court – repeated its main demand: to prohibit the State from taking any measures via these Ministerial Decrees, and to have the measures that were already taken lifted.
According to counsel for the Belgian State, the court’s order raises several problems, starting with the question of jurisdiction.
