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Hunting Act challenge - what the Law Lords said Print E-mail
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
ImageThe Countryside Alliance will be appealing to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over the Hunting Act. The Law Lords today rejected the appeal of the Alliance and others against the Hunting Act under Human Rights and European Law.
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Hunting Act is not a police priority Print E-mail
Wednesday, 31 October 2007

PolicemanA new poll* released at the start of the hunting season shows that two in three people (65%) believe that the police should spend the same amount or less time policing the Hunting Act.

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Judgment points to future for hunting Print E-mail
Friday, 19 October 2007
Image The Countryside Alliance has welcomed today’s judgment in the appeal of two members of the Quantock Staghounds against their conviction under the Hunting Act at Taunton Crown Court. Whilst the judge decided that Richard Down and Adrian Pillivant were guilty of an offence on the day in question he outlined how the staghounds could continue to hunt within the law.
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Hunting - the Case for Repeal Print E-mail
Friday, 21 September 2007
Image A clear, concise and powerful argument for the repeal of the Hunting Act is detailed in the “Case for Repeal”, a new document by the Countryside Alliance setting out why the Act is flawed and why it believes repeal is inevitable. Download a copy of "Case for Repeal" here
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Alliance backs report on bad science Print E-mail
Friday, 27 July 2007
Image The Countryside Alliance has welcomed a new report - "The Use, Misuse and Abuse of Science in support of the Hunting Act 2004", which aims to "demolish the claims that there is any valid scientific evidence to justify the hunting ban".
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Hunting Act confusion continues Print E-mail
Thursday, 07 June 2007
Adrian Pillivant and Richard Down Confusion over the Hunting Act has increased after the huntsman and whipper-in of the Quantocks Staghounds were found guilty of illegal hunting in the second case brought against a hunt.
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Policing the Hunting Act Print E-mail
Thursday, 17 May 2007
Image Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart writes: "There was good news from the Isle of Wight on Monday when the four members of the Isle of Wight Hunt, who had been arrested in a series of ludicrously over-dramatic 'dawn raids' last week and questioned about alleged Hunting Act offences, heard that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided that they had no case to answer......
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