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Article: Hunting act left 'fatally weakened' after case ruling ; Campaigners claimed the Hunting Act had been left "fatally weakened" after the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to appeal against a test case ruling on the conviction of a Westcountry huntsman.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2009
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Campaigners claimed the Hunting Act had been left "fatally
weakened" after the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to appeal
against a test case ruling on the conviction of a Westcountry
huntsman.
The High Court ruling last month clarified the term "hunts" in
the 2004 Hunting Act, following the case of Tony Wright, of the
Exmoor Hunt, who was convicted under the act in 2006.
The ruling led to the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance predicting it
would now be harder to successfully prosecute huntsmen.
And after the CPS yesterday said it would not take the case to
the House of Lords, it again called for the controversial law to be
repealed.
The alliance's chief executive, Simon Hart, said: "The ...