Canadian pastor who held service regardless of COVID-19 lockdown wins authorized victory

Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski notched a significant authorized win after being arrested and located in contempt for holding a church service through the COVID-19 lockdown.

A Canadian courtroom dominated Friday that well being company orders limiting “unlawful public gatherings” have been ambiguous and subsequently couldn't apply to Pawlowski’s resolution to carry a church service, during which congregants gathered with out masks amid the nation’s pandemic mitigation efforts.

“It’s a slam dunk win. The Courtroom of Enchantment made a unanimous, sound resolution and overturned the discovering of contempt made towards my shopper,” Pawlowski’s lawyer Sarah Miller tweeted.

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Pawlowski, who leads Calgary’s Avenue Church, was arrested on Could 8, 2021, in the midst of a busy Canadian freeway as he was heading house from church.

Each he and his brother, Dawid Pawlowski, have been charged with organizing and alluring others to an unlawful in-person gathering. In October, the brothers have been discovered to be in contempt of Alberta’s public well being orders.

Nonetheless, an Alberta appeals courtroom choose panel has dominated that the Pawlowskis’ appeals are allowed provided that the orders have been “not sufficiently clear and unambiguous.”

“The discovering of contempt and the sanction order are put aside,” the 16-page ruling said. “The fines which were paid by them are to be reimbursed.”

Pawlowski has been arrested and fined a number of occasions for defying Alberta’s pandemic restrictions, together with gatherings to feed the homeless and protest vaccine mandates.

On Friday, the courtroom panel ordered the Alberta Well being Companies to reimburse Pawlowski all fines levied towards him for holding the church companies, along with his authorized prices.