Category: #justice4henharriers

As predicted, there was a certain amount of to-ing and fro-ing over the final details of our application for judicial review of Natural England’s daft decision to license brood meddling (occasionally known as brood management) of Hen Harriers but the dream-team of lawyers submitted our application with no problem at all. Which is just as…

Today is the day when we submit our application for judicial review of NE’s foolish licensing of brood meddling. Our legal team has been working hard and I’ve been working quite hard too – sending them information, drafting witness statements, commenting on the legal matters and answering searching questions. There will no doubt be a…

I posted a short update on the Crowd Justice website earlier today – see here.   And I’ve spent most of the day sending emails to our lawyers giving them more juicy information tom help our case.  That’s all I can say for now.

I’ve been at Cheltenham racecourse this week, and it was just before the last race on Wednesday that our lawyer, Tessa Gregory, phoned me to say that we had had a response from Natural England to our pre-action protocol letter. It wasn’t a very interesting response as NE said that because they were dealing with…

The RSPB has just announced on Martin Harper’s blog that it, too, is making a legal challenge to Natural England’s licensing of brood meddling. The RSPB tipped me off on Tuesday that they had made this decision but they were waiting until they had sent off their letter before action before going public. It’s good…