Category: #justice4henharriers

After consulting with my brilliant legal team we have asked Mrs Justice Lang whether we can appeal her judgment against us in our Hen Harrier brood-meddling case.  We are still waiting to hear from her. But in any case, we have decided that we will ask the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal if…

A little while ago Mrs Justice Lang handed down her judgment on the legal challenges by myself and the RSPB.  We lost. In fact we both lost on all counts so it sounds like a bit of a massacre – but it wasn’t. Our challenge was of the decision by Natural England to issue licences…

Today is the third and final day of the hearing of our legal challenge to NE’s licensing of brood meddling. I may be able to write a few words about it for publication here on Friday afternoon – I’ll try.

It is appropriate, perhaps, that a year ago today Natural England issued a licence for the brood meddling of Hen Harriers. Tomorrow will see the third and final day of the court hearing of my legal challenge, and a similar but separate one by the RSPB, against that decision. We will not hear the judge’s…

We’re back in court a week today (on 17 January) for the last, the third, day of our judicial review hearing in front of Ms Justice Lang. The hearing is in the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand and is open to the public. For the first two days we were in Court 18…