In a long-running legal battle, the health facility continues to seek justice over the ‘drug bust’, in which customs officers conducted a raid of the clinic and seized the legal medical cannabis oil it was prescribing to patients. Since winning a judicial review in February 2021, the private clinic has been pursuing financial damages and the prosecution of those involved, which is still going through the legal process. Shortly after the ruling was delivered, Doctors Express contacted the ODPP about prosecuting a number of individuals found to have acted maliciously, according to the judge’s ruling. However, given the amount of evidence that was presented during the original case, the medical centre’s legal team applied for a judicial review of that decision, which is now going through the courts. “The advice and the instructions are the only contemporaneous materials apparently available that are likely to cast any light on the decision-making that occurred.
