A group of essential workers who were challenging Victoria's vaccination mandates have been given permission to discontinue their case - but they'll have to pay costs.
But two are hoping to press on.
There were 132 workers and employers who sought to challenge the state's COVID-19 vaccination mandates, arguing it breached their human rights.
Melbourne couple Belinda and Jack Cetnar filed a case challenging the mandates in October last year, but after a judge recommended they get legal advice they joined a larger action led by healthcare worker Simon Harding.
All but two members of that group were represented in a Victorian Supreme Court hearing on Thursday where Justice Melinda Richards granted them permission to file a discontinuance and bring their case to an end.
She also ordered that the challengers pay costs for the defendants - Chief Health officer Brett Sutton and acting CHOs Deborah Freidman and Benjamin Cowie.
Mellanie McNamara and Zerjon Franklin, two of the plaintiffs named in the original case, were not represented on Thursday and did not join the application to discontinue.
Justice Richards has given them until June 16 to file further documents to continue the case.
If they don't file by then, their case will be dismissed without a decision.
