Animal Testing
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review of Defra’s decision to withdraw the general licence (GL43) that allowed the release of gamebirds in certain areas of England. BASC’s ‘Fighting Fund’ is being used to support the High Court challenge. BASC chief executive Ian… Read more »
Long overdue legislation setting out the regulatory framework for physician assistants (PAs) and anaesthesia assistants (AAs) has been published today. Commenting on the legislation, Dr Michael Devlin, head of professional standards and liaison at the MDU said: “This important piece of legislation not only introduces much needed regulation for PAs and AAs, it will also be… Read more »
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By Gabriel Huntley The number of experiments on animals rose by 14 per cent in 2008, according to statistics published by the Home Office today. The total number of procedures involving animals in 2008 was just under 3.7m, an increase of 454,000 from the previous year. This represents the biggest proportionate rise in animal experiments… Read more »
The court of appeal has today rejected yet another challenge to the fox hunting ban, which claimed it breaches human rights and European law. It was the latest of several attempts to overturn the Hunting Act 2004, which prohibits hunting a wild mammal with a dog, since it came into force in February last year…. Read more »
