Hussey v Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals: Admn 5 Mar 2007
Appeal against conviction of animal cruelty. . .
Appeal against conviction of animal cruelty. . .
Defendants had been convicted of maltreatment of horses. The crown court had overturned a permanent ban on keeping horses, substituting a limit of keeping 25 horses with a conditional discharge. The prosecutor now appealed.
Held: The court had . .
The defendant was licensed to set Larson traps to catch magpies. The traps worked by keeping a magpie as a decoy to attract others. The evidence was that the trapped magpie suffered distress and injury because the trap was so small as not to allow . .