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Article: Law Lords throw out second rights challenge to legality of Hunting Act
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- November 29, 2007
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The Law Lords have thrown out the latest challenges to the ban on
hunting with dogs by ruling that the Hunting Act did not contravene
any human rights.
The House of Lords, the highest court in the land, rejected an
appeal two years ago in which the pro-hunt lobby claimed that the
Parliament Act, used to force through the Hunting Act, was
unconstitutional.
Yesterday Lords Bingham, Hope, Rodger and Brown and Baroness Hale
dismissed a second challenge by the Countryside Alliance and other
campaigners to the lawfulness of the Hunting Act.
The same panel of Law Lords also dismissed an appeal from the
Scottish courts by Brian Friend and Jeremy Whaley, both members of
the Union of Country Sports ...