Animals Act 1971: Endangering species

Outer Temple Chambers (Chambers of James Counsell QC, Sarah Crowther QC and Keith Bryant QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | May 2019 #175
Jonathan Hand QC provides advice on the difficult issue of how to apply the provisions under the Animals Act ‘A keeper of an animal (among other things, a person who owns the animal or has it in their possession) can be held liable for damage which it has caused, even though this was not due …

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Animals Act 1971: Prosecuting and defending equine claims

Guildhall Chambers (Chambers of James Townsend) | Personal Injury Law Journal | November 2014 #130
John Snell provides invaluable advice on this difficult area of law ‘Where the Animals Act 1971 applies, there will often be little or nothing to be gained for a claimant by also pleading a claim at common law.’ A horse, as Lord Justice Lewison observed in Turnbull v Warrener [2012] at para 56, is a …

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