Permission granted for judicial review of Welsh general licences – we’re going to court. 3rd August 2020 Good news! This morning we heard from our legal team that the Hon Mr Justice Griffiths has granted us permission… Read more >
Applications for gull cull licences fall short of required standards. 5th May 2020 Natural England is waking up to the shambolic state of knowledge amongst those seeking licences for lethal killing of birds… Read more >
DEFRA roll out of general licences 14th February 2020 DEFRA has rolled out the existing scientifically flawed and, we believe, unlawful general licences for several more months. This is… Read more >
NRW – your general licences are unlawful 4th February 2020 Yesterday we sent this letter to Natural Resources Wales. It won’t have come as a shock to them as we… Read more >
Letter to DEFRA on general licences 29th January 2020 Yesterday Wild Justice’s lawyers sent this letter to DEFRA. Paragraphs 16, 17 and 18 sum it all up pretty well.… Read more >
General licences – DEFRA heads for a new debacle. 27th January 2020 Media speculation that DEFRA is woefully unprepared to issue new, lawful, sensible general licences is probably correct. The response of… Read more >
Well done Wales! 9th October 2019 Natural Resources Wales (the equivalent of Natural England, the Environment Agency and Forestry England rolled into one) has issued its… Read more >
General licences – Scotland 17th September 2019 Everyone is looking at general licences following our successful legal challenge of the system, and in the knowledge that further… Read more >
