BBC News - 'No-one Can Define New Hunt Ban&ap
MPs point out the government's problem of distinguishing between illegal hunting, exempt hunting, drag hunting, unintentional hunting, a hunt exercising hounds or simply chasing away. If the offence cannot be properly defined, it cannot be properly enforced.
Game Conservancy Trust - The Hunting Act
Response to the Government's ban on hunting and the associated problems.
ic NorthWales - Let Wales Go It Alone on Hunting
NFU Cymru, CLA Wales and the Farmers Union of Wales have joined forces to press the Assembly to allow devolved licensed hunting in Wales.
ic NorthWales - Old Scores, Class Wars ... the Rea
The Countryside Alliance's regional director Barry Henderson replies to Monday's columns by rural affairs minister Alun Michael urging hunt supporters to accept the new hunting ban.
Scotsman.com News - Hunting Ban 'Not Class Wa
During Lords question time, Junior Rural Affairs Minister Lord Whitty answered that the newspaper column by an aide to Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael claiming that the Hunting Act was about class war, was quite clearly "not a statement of Government policy."
Telegraph - Blair Accused of Encouraging Delay to
The Government has told the Countryside Alliance that it will allow its application for a High Court injunction stopping the law coming into force as intended on Feb 18.
Telegraph - We'll Fight Hunt Ban Delay, Says
The League Against Cruel Sports, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the RSPCA have taken legal advice after Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney-General, said that he would not oppose the alliance's application for an injunction to delay the ban.
Telegraph - You Can't Hunt...But You Can Chas
Farmer Giles Bradshaw has been told by the Government that he will not be breaking the new law that bans hunting if he uses his dogs to "chase away" wild mammals from his land.
The Observer - Hunt Bill at a Dead End
Ruaridh Nicoll reviews the court case in Scotland which found huntsman Trevor Adams innocent, and the effects of what he sees as "an absurd mess of legislation" for England and Wells.
The Observer - Hunts to Test Legal Loopholes
Britain's 250 hunts will tomorrow be issued with a 50-page manifesto drawn up by a team of lawyers with the Countryside Alliance, explaining what they can and cannot do when the ban on hunting with dogs comes into effect in February.
Times - Loophole in Hunting Ban
Announcement of the Government's backing of a new form of legal hunting that allows people and dogs to chase foxes, deer or any other wild mammal away from crops or any other animals.