Founder and inaugural Chair (2006 to 2014), Graeme McEwen, has stepped down as Panel Chair so that he may focus on Counsel for Animals International, a new group with lawyer support in 17 countries. A CAI website is under construction: counselforanimalsinternational.org. Graeme remains as a director of the Panel board and will still act as…
Judgement was delivered this morning by the Court of Appeal of the Victorian Supreme Court in the matter of the dog, ‘Izzy’ (see the Panel’s Facebook posts of 17 June and 6 September 2014). ‘Izzy’ lost the appeal. The appeal principally concerned questions of procedural fairness about the manner in which the Council arrived at…
Jumps racing is to end at Morphettville racecourse in Adelaide, with the South Australian Jockey Club citing a public backlash which is costing it revenue. Chief executive of the jockey club Brenton Wilkinson said some people had boycotted the club because they believed jumps events were cruel to horses. “We as a board and as…
By a Supreme Court injunction to stop Knuckles (and Zeus) being killed on the day he was scheduled to be put down last year by Geelong City Council, and subsequently by consent orders of VCAT revoking the Council’s declaration that he was a restricted breed dog, the Panel intervened to save Knuckles’ life: view our…
Several weeks ago a dog was brought into an outer Sydney Council’s pound, and impounded as ‘ -CC 178’. She was considered aggressive and so, at the end of a pole, was consigned to the pound’s dangerous dog cage for the safety of staff. -CC 178 had no known owner so that after the lapse…