Raptor Persecution UK does a fantastic job of keeping us all informed about raptor persecution, and their Twitter profile‘s words of ‘Think illegal raptor persecution is a thing of the past? Think again!‘ are just spot on. Last week and last night RPUK brought us all news of two alleged observed shootings of ‘protected’ Hen…
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NEWS: update from Court 69 #justice4henharriers
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One of the three Appeal Court judges, Sir Patrick Elias, was taken ill over the lunch break and the case has been stopped. Obviously, I send Sir Patrick my every best wish for a full and speedy recovery. None of us knows the details of the illness but it occurred at a time when rumours…
Update from Court 69 #justice4henharriers
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Our appeal against the judgment of Justice Lang is being heard today and tomorrow in Court 69 of the Royal Courts of Justice. I’m disappointed not to be there but I’ve had an update from our legal team. Our barrister, David Wolfe QC was first to make submissions and those were finished just before lunch…
#justice4henharriers update for tomorrow
I’m afraid that I won’t be attending our Appeal hearing tomorrow – along with some of the legal team there are personal reasons connected to coronavirus for me being absent and the government advice has certainly become a lot clearer about travelling. I feel bad about this as I want to be there (who knows…
Tomorrow we are in court
Tuesday and half of Wednesday are set aside for our (and the RSPB’s) appeal against the judgment of Justice Lang on brood meddling. I’m planning to be there – government travel bans permitting. There will not be a single Hen Harrier in court but we are taking this case for them – Hen Harriers can’t…
Lost in the post…?
I’m gutted of course not to have received my invitation to this important event organised by the GWCT. Let’s hope the report is more accurate than the invitation. You’d think that the GWCT would know, somehow, that their chair, the often-amiable Sir James Paice, was never the Secretary of State for DEFRA but was the…
Crispin Odey and the Cerrado – a tale of three governments?
There are some people whose names crop up now and again; one of these is Crispin Odey (for previous mentions of old Harrovian, city trader, Crispin Odey in this blog see here, here, here, here, here, here and here!). Yesterday Mr Odey was mentioned in the Guardian under the headline ‘Tory donor invested in firm…
Burning questions in Parliament, again
The Government has always been clear on the need to phase out burning of protected blanket bog to conserve these vulnerable habitats, and we are looking at how legislation could achieve this. https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-02-24/19781/
Burning questions in parliament, for peat’s sake.
Brood meddling appeal
Two weeks today, we will be going back into the courts to appeal the judgment of Hon Justice Lang on brood meddling of Hen Harriers. We, and the RSPB, will be seeking to overturn her judgment that brood meddling of this threatened bird was legal because it was just, for now, research. Win or lose,…