Two weeks today (5 December) our judicial review hearing (and that of the RSPB) challenging the legality of the licensing of brood meddling will start.
It’s been a long time coming but it’s not that far away now.
Last week I was involved with our lawyers in finalising our skeleton argument – that was filed with the court a week ago. I had another look at the skeleton argument yesterday and it looks pretty good to me – but I am no lawyer (not even a barrack-room one).
I wonder who will be the judge. We won’t know until very close to the day.
I wonder what the RSPB will say. We won’t know until the day.
I wonder what NE will say. We won’t really know until the day.
I wonder whether we will win. We won’t know until weeks afterwards.
Exciting isn’t it?
I am hoping that NE will be having metaphorical cooked goose for xmas!
It is great that we have such people as Mark to drive this forward. In this instance he has even forced (I believe) the RSPB to become ‘activist’ against their present desires.
It is a pity that it is not a case we can assume that Mark and the RSPB will win. The people who wrote the laws in the UK knew what would benefit them, and the results reflect that.
Alex – many thanks.