The House of Lords has today dismissed appeals by the Countryside Alliance and other hunting supporters who argued the hunting ban breaches Human Rights and European law.
The Hunting Act 2004 must “be taken to reflect the conscience of a majority of the nation,” said Lord Bingham, the senior Law Lord, in the leading opinion – after a unanimous ruling by the five Law Lords who heard the case last month.
He went on to say “The democratic process is liable to be subverted if, on a question of moral and political judgment, opponents of the Act achieve through the courts what they could not achieve in Parliament.”
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