Below are details of pertinent animal law cases and reasons for judgment:

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• Izzy wins High Court Appeal, Isbester v Knox City Council [2015] HCA 20 10 June 2015.
• Judge recognizes two chimpanzees as legal persons, the Non Human Rights Project website 21 April 2015.
• Live ex class action defence takes shape, Stock and Land, 20 January 2015.
• Gray v Brimbank City Council (Review and Regulation) [2014] VCAT 1485 (Mylo held not to be a restricted dog).
• Company Fined For Misleading, Deceiving Customers Over Free-Range Eggs Claim Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Pirovic Enterprises Pty Ltd (No 2) [2014] FCA 1028 (misleading consumers that eggs were free-range).
• Isbester v Knox City Council [2014] VSCA 214, 10 September 2014 (‘Izzy’s unsuccessful appeal to the Victorian Court of Appeal on administrative law questions about the decision of the Council to destroy the dog).
• Isbester v Knox City Council (SCV), 17 June 2014 (Izzy, administrative law questions on Council decision to destroy dog).
• Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan: New Zealand intervening) (Judgments) [2014] International Court of Justice (31 March 2014).
• Applebee v Monash City Council (Review and Regulation) [2014] VCAT 257 (26 March Isbester v Knox City Council 2014) (whether the new Standard applies to a dog declared a restricted breed dog under the old Standard).
• Gray v Brimbank City Council [2014] VSC 13 (Mylo’s appeal) (6 February 2014).
• Michael Ackerley v Greater Geelong City Council (Zeus appeal) (21 December 2014).
• Jade Applebee v Monash City Council (Kerser appeal) (10 December 2013).
• Legal personhood for chimpanzees in the US – Progress Report (10 December 2013).
• Summary of key findings in the WTO panel decision on European ban on seal products (25 November 2013).
• Applebee v Monash City Council [2013] VSC 481 (6 September 2013).
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Califor nia’s ban on the production and sale of foie gras, 8 May 2013.
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Turi Foods Pty Ltd (No 4), Federal Court of Australia, 8 July 2013.
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Turi Foods Pty Ltd (No 2), Federal Court of Australia, 23 January 2013.
• Akiba on behalf of the Torres Strait Regional Seas Claim Group v Commonwealth of Australia, High Court of Australia judgment, 7 August 2013.
• Scott v Moonee Valley City Council, VCAT reasons for judgment, 2 July 2013.
• Gray v Brimbank City Council [2013] VSC 281, Supreme Court appeal decision, 30 May .2013.
• Terms of settlement, Australian Wool Innovation and PETA, 26 June 2007.
• Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v. Japan : New Zealand intervening), International Court of Justice (Press Relase) – The Court to hold public hearings, 11 April 2013.
• Case Note, Case note on Shrimp-Turtle Case (World Trade Organisation) by Panel Secretariat Member, March 2013.
• Ninth Circuit Order – United States Court of Appeals, Institute of Cetacean Research; Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Ltd; Tomoyuki Ogawa; Toshiyuki Miura v Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; Paul Watson, 17 December 2012.
• US investment in Australia gas plant faces lawsuit, Pacific Environment Online by Karen Gullo, 14 December 2012.
• seaturtles.org, Statement of claim filed in court challenge against coal seam gas project, 15 December 2012.
• Pepe’s Ducks falls fowl of ‘open range’ claims, Australian Online News, 19 December 2012.
• Dudas v Monash City Council; Tarawa-Shearer v Darebin City Council [2012] VSC 578, 29 November 2012 (test enunciated requiring high or substantial compliance with the Standard).
• ACCC Launches Case Against Pepe’s Ducks, The consumer watchdog is taking court action against Pepe’s Ducks, alleging misleading advertising regarding ‘open range’ claims, 11 July 2012.
• Public interest, and whalers’ violation of Aust. Court injunction considered, Japanese whalers fail to injunct Sea Shepherd in US Court, 19 March 2012.
• Humane Society International Inc v Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd, The case concerned an application in the Federal Court of Australia for an injunction and declaration to restrain Japanese whaling in the Australian Whale Sanctuary adjacent to Antarctica, 14 July 2006.
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v C.I. & Co Pty Ltd, Case about misleading and deceptive conduct in the labelling of caged eggs as “free range”, 23 December 2010.
• RSPCA (SA) v Newton, Sentencing Remarks on Penalty of Mr C Kitchin SM. Prosecution Counsel were provided by BAWP, Mr Hore-Lacy SC and Ms P Marcou, 3 December 2010.
• Hoffmann – La Roche, Case Note: Hoffmann – La Roche v Secretary of State for Trade [1975] AC 295, 14 October 2010.
• Environment East Gippsland Inc v VicForests, Supreme Court of Victoria, 11 August 2010.
• Rural Export Trading v Hahnheuser, Reasons for judgment of Full Federal Court in Rural Export Trading (WA) Pty Ltd v Hahnheuser, 22 August 2008.
• DLGD v Emanuel Exports, Reasons for judgment in Department of Local Government & Development v Emanual Exports PL & Ors, 14 February 2007.
• Suica v Brazil, First case to consider that a chimpanzee might be a legal person to come before the court. Source: Michigan State University College of Law, 28 September 2005.
• Australian Wool Innovation Limited v Newkirk, Case about sufficiency of AWI’s pleading in case against PETA about its threatened boycott of Australian wool products, 22 March 2005.
• A v B & C, England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Decision, 11 March 2002.
• Imutran Ltd v. Uncaged Campaigns Ltd & Anor, England and Wales High Court (Chancery Division) Decision, 11 January 2001.
• ABC v Lenah Game Meats Pty Ltd, HIgh Court of Australia, 15 November 2001.
• Levy v Victoria, Duck shooting case – High Court of Australia, 31 July 1997.