Northern Ireland’s new general licences
With the publication of new general licences for Northern Ireland – click here – we can draw a line under […]
With the publication of new general licences for Northern Ireland – click here – we can draw a line under […]
Yesterday afternoon, and out of the blue, we received very good news on the future of general licences in Northern […]
Press release from Leigh Day (8 September 2022) Environmental group Wild Justice has protested delays by the Department of Agriculture, […]
We’d like to invite you to take c20 minutes to respond to a consultation on general licences in Northern Ireland. […]
It seems we’ve encountered yet another delay with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs’ (DAERA) promised consultation on […]
UPDATE: THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE APPROVED BY THE NRW BOARD ON THURSDAY 24 MARCH At their Board meeting next week, Natural […]
You might remember our recent head-scratcher involving gamebirds; when is a Pheasant livestock, and when is it wildlife? Today news […]
Back in December, Wild Justice were successful in a legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s general licences for the killing of wild birds. […]
Back in December, Wild Justice were successful in a legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s general licences for the killing of […]
We’ve learned, since our public launch on 13 February 2019, that public bodies almost always try to delay any legal […]
We recently blogged about our initial steps to challenge Defra on the lawfulness of General Licence GL42. Whilst we wait […]
Our infographic above captures the absurdity of DEFRA’s position on whether birds such as Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges are or […]
Yesterday the Judicial Review and Courts Bill was debated in Committee. The Opposition were trying to get rid of Clause […]
Yesterday this piece appeared in the Guardian online – we guess it will be in today’s print edition. The story […]
Wild Justice’s first legal challenge was of general licences in England. General licences are used by statutory agencies to authorise […]
The news that Wild Justice has toppled three Northern Ireland general licences is good for wildlife, good for those who […]
Wild Justice, represented by Leigh Day acting through their agent Phoenix Law, has secured a landmark victory in a legal […]
An article in this week’s The ENDS Report highlights the ecological illiteracy of the British Association for Shooting & Conservation […]
Our guidance on responding to the NRW consultation on general licences. We welcome the NRW consultation on general licences. […]
A massive thank you to everyone who has helped us reach our crowdfunder target this evening! What wonderful supporters you […]
From this… … to this …. Thank you to all the generous people who have already donated to this legal […]
Our pre-action protocol letter to DAERA:
Today we launch a legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s general licences and we’re asking for your financial support, please. We […]
The three Northern Ireland general licences, TPG1, TPG2 and TPG3 which purport to authorise the killing of specific listed bird […]
Yesterday, Natural Resources Wales launched a consultation on their general licences. The consultation is lengthy but that is because it […]
See four previous blogs to catch up on this story: 28 May, Alleged breach of general licences; 2 July, The […]
The current Northern Ireland general licences are shockingly bad – as we wrote and told the Northern Ireland authorities back […]
In the Shooting Times of 10 February there was an article entitled Shooting for a Perfect Ten which purported to […]
Dear Shooting Times, We write to you to draw to your attention the inaccuracy of an article published in your […]
Some time ago we told our newsletter subscribers, and wrote a blog (see here), about an article in the Shooting […]
Note: this blog was originally posted on 28 May, and was temporarily removed after a few days. It is now […]
We wrote to NRW’s Chair some time ago and did not receive an acknowledgement (although they say that one was […]
Dear DEFRA, we asked you at a so-called stakeholder meeting in early November about the conditions applying to your (then) […]
Dear Sir David We are writing to you following Wild Justice’s challenge of NRW’s general licences and following subsequent discussions […]
The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation is grumpily coming to terms with the changes to their job description that we explained back […]
Earlier this morning, His Honour Justice Jarman handed down his judgment on Wild Justice’s judicial review of Natural Resources Wales’s […]
Following reforms introduced as a result of Wild Justice’s legal challenges, the job description for gamekeepers in England has changed […]
This blog is about the licensing system for killing birds in Wales which is licensed by Natural Resources Wales. There […]
Today DEFRA released new general licences which will apply in England from 1 January 2021 for the calendar year. This […]
Good news! This morning we heard from our legal team that the Hon Mr Justice Griffiths has granted us permission […]
Natural England is waking up to the shambolic state of knowledge amongst those seeking licences for lethal killing of birds […]
DEFRA has rolled out the existing scientifically flawed and, we believe, unlawful general licences for several more months. This is […]
Yesterday we sent this letter to Natural Resources Wales. It won’t have come as a shock to them as we […]
Yesterday Wild Justice’s lawyers sent this letter to DEFRA. Paragraphs 16, 17 and 18 sum it all up pretty well. […]
Media speculation that DEFRA is woefully unprepared to issue new, lawful, sensible general licences is probably correct. The response of […]
Natural Resources Wales (the equivalent of Natural England, the Environment Agency and Forestry England rolled into one) has issued its […]
Everyone is looking at general licences following our successful legal challenge of the system, and in the knowledge that further […]
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) ordered a review of licencing arrangements following a legal challenge in England by campaign group Wild […]
Natural England should be replying to Wild Justice’s Pre-Action Protocol letter over General Licence GL26 by 4pm tomorrow. We’ll be […]
Wild Justice says: Odd isn’t it? Natural England consulted with Defra in April and revoked these licences and then Defra […]
This is the section in the Licence Determination document received from Natural England to justify the publication of General Licence […]
As we wrote yesterday, Farmers Weekly has now published a news story about our new legal challenge on their website […]
Because the magazine/website Sporting Gun was unique among shooting magazines in actually asking us about what we were doing when […]
On Friday morning Wild Justice launched a new legal challenge of general licences issued by Natural England. The formal legal […]
Received from Defra yesterday afternoon: Dear colleague, We intend to announce shortly how we will proceed on general licensing, […]
If you are interested in what Natural England had to say about general licences and the revocation of GL04, GL05 […]
Wild Justice was founded by Dr Mark Avery, Chris Packham CBE and Dr Ruth Tingay in October 2018. It exists […]
Wild Justice noted with interest the Efra Committee meeting which took evidence yesterday from Natural England. Wild Justice will make […]
Natural England’s Deputy Chair Lord Blencathra (who was Acting Chair at the time of the decision to revoke the General […]
Wild Justice is pleased, but not remotely surprised, to see that the RSPB has followed our lead on the general […]
A few days ago we thanked BASC for their response to the Defra consultation on general licences because it clarified […]
We are grateful to BASC (British Association for Shooting and Conservation) for providing a very helpful visual aid to guide […]
Today Wild Justice submitted a response to the Defra consultation on general licences – it is copied below. Wild Justice […]
Michael Gove has taken back control of issuing general licences from Natural England (possibly because Gove’s predecessors as Secretary of […]
Wild Justice’s first legal case was a challenge of the General Licences GL04, GL05 and GL06 which ‘authorised’ the lethal […]