High Court upholds ban on hunting
The High Court today rejected the Countryside Alliance’s challenge to the validity of the Hunting Act. This is the result we expected. The challenge was based on an argument about the legitimacy of the 1949 Parliament Act. In its judgment, the Court clearly ruled in favour of the Government and against the Countryside Alliance on all the points in issue. The Countryside Alliance was given leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal, in recognition of the important constitutional questions raised in this case and the public interest in it. The Government accepts that the Alliance is entitled to do so and believes that the Court is the right place to resolve this question. We understand that the Court of Appeal will hear the case on 8 February. We are confident that the Government's arguments will again prevail at that pointPage last modified:
19 May, 2005
Page published: 16 September, 2004