Joseph Lennox Holmes (Appellant) v Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (Respondent) [2011] UKPC 48 - read judgment The disciplinary procedures of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons did not give rise to any appearance of bias so as to breach a practitioner’s right to a fair trial under Article 6. Despite the fact that the membership [...]
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Veterinary tribunal did not show bias
Posted in Animals, Art. 6 | Right to Fair Trial, Disciplinary Proceedings, In the news on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Freedom of information – no longer the Cinderella of rights
Posted in Animals, Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Information, In the news, tagged climate change, freedom of information, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Newcastle university on November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
BUAV v Information Commissioner and Newcastle University (EA/2010/0064) – read judgment There is no doubt that freedom of expression plays a starring role in the human rights fairy tale. While she is carried aloft on the soaring rhetoric of citizens’ rights from the newsrooms to protesters’ rallies, the right to information, her shy stepsister, is [...]
The lessons of shaggy dogs and Catgate
Posted in Animals, European, In the news, Poor reporting, tagged human rights, Maya the Cat on October 5, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Updated x 2 | What can we learn from yesterday’s gaff by the Home Secretary Theresa May involving Maya the cat? First, when referring to a legal judgment in a speech make sure you get the outcome right. Particularly when prefaced by “I am not making this up”. Secondly, if said speech is being broadcast live, [...]
Libel threatens to stifle debate about factory farming
Posted in Agriculture, Animals, Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Defamation / Libel, In the news, tagged feature on January 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Food production is becoming a chosen territory for some of the fiercest current battles about freedom of information in this country. In 2009 the Channel 4 broadcast of a film about the pork factory business was effectively shut down by the threat of libel action; in the last week the Guardian reported that libel lawyers [...]
Batty behaviour in Hampshire habitat
Posted in Animals, Case comments, Case law, Case summaries, Environment, European, In the news, tagged bats' rights on January 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Morge (FC) (Appellant) v Hampshire County Council (Respondent) on appeal from [2010] EWCA Civ 608- Read judgment We cannot drive a coach-and-horses through natural habitats without a bit of soul-searching, says the Supreme Court . The UK has conservation obligations under EU law to avoid the deterioration of natural habitats and this goes beyond holding [...]
Analysis: Pet shock collar ban – barking, or a new era for rights?
Posted in Agriculture, Animals, Case comments, Case law, Environment, European, In the news, Protocol 1 Art. 1 | Peaceful enjoyment of property, tagged animal rights on November 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Updated | The recent High Court decision upholding the ban on electronic training collars for domestic animals raises the interesting and topical issue of animal welfare and its role in EU law. In her post on the case Catriona Murdoch discusses the various arguments involved, from human rights to irrationality to proportionality under EU law, [...]
Electric shock pet collar ban did not breach human rights
Posted in Animals, Case summaries, European, Protocol 1 Art. 1 | Peaceful enjoyment of property, tagged animal welfare on November 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Petsafe Ltd, R (on the application of) v The Welsh Ministers [2010] EWHC 2908 (Admin) (16 November 2010) - Read judgment The High Court has ruled that a Welsh ban on the use of collars designed to administer electric shocks to cats and dogs does not breach Article 1 of the First Protocol of the ECHR [...]
Feature | Freedom of expression, the American way
Posted in Animals, Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Features, tagged animal cruelty, article 10, free speech, Freedom of Expression, human rights, US Supreme Court on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
The UK Supreme Court Blog has posted on United States v Stevens, a US Supreme Court decision on animal cruelty videos, involving “freedom of expression in the extreme”. The decision provides for an interesting comparison with the approach to freedom of expression in the UK courts. If the Human Rights Act 1998 is replaced by [...]
Court rules on injunctions against animal rights protesters
Posted in Animals, Art. 10 | Freedom of Expression, Case comments on November 19, 2009 | Comments Off
(1)Novartis Pharmaceuticals Uk Ltd (2) Andrew Roy Grantham v (1) Stop Huntingdon Aminal Cruelty (SHAC) by its representative Max Gastone (2) Greg Avery (3) Natasha Avery (4) Heather James [2009] EWHC 2716 (QBD) Sweeney J 30 October 2009 An injunction against animal rights protesters could not be altered to increase the restriction on their protest [...]
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Admin court grabs bull by the horns
Posted in Agriculture, Animals, Case comments, Environment, European, In the news, Protocol 1 Art. 1 | Peaceful enjoyment of property on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
R (on the application of K and AC Jackson and Son) v DEFRA – read judgment. An interesting ruling in the Administrative Court this week touches on some issues fundamental to public law – the extent to which “macro” policy (such as EC law) should trump principles of good administration; the role of factual evidence [...]
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