Good morning!
We are waiting to hear whether we will be given permission for judicial review of Badger culling (click here) and of the Dartmoor Commoners' Council's lack of regulation of grazing on Dartmoor (click here). That's how legal challenges often proceed - lots of action in short bursts followed by longish periods of waiting. We might hear about both cases today or both might take weeks to reach the next stage. We're also waiting for a considered response from the Competition and Marketing Authority about our complaint about supermarkets selling game meat contaminated with lead from shot (click here). On all three issues, as soon as we know - you'll know.
We are approaching the end of our financial year - at the end of October. We're making sure that we've paid bills and can start the next, our seventh, financial year with everything in order.
We're working on two reports that we will be able to bring you, and the rest of the world, quite soon. We won't spoil the surprise but the first will almost certainly be completed by the end of the month.
In this newsletter we can bring you three pieces of news; today we publish an open letter to the Charity Commission, we are considering a legal challenge of a planning decision in Pembrokeshire and we bring you our response to the public consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework.
An open letter to the Charity Commission: with the general election over 100 days in the past, we have written to the Charity Commission for England and Wales seeking guidance on what charities can do in general election periods.
You may remember that Wild Justice published a report on this subject and during the general election campaign around 50 blogs which assessed the political parties' election manifestos. Wild Justice is not a charity - we are a not for profit company - but we might seek charitable status in the future.
Our letter to the Charity Commission asks whether our report on what charities can do during general election campaigns is right and whether, if Wild Justice were a charity, we could have published the blogs that so many of you found useful (and entertaining!) ahead of the general election.
See our open letter - click here - and we'll let you know what response we get.
Wildlife disturbance in Pembrokeshire: the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority approved a planning application for a 'coasteering' centre in the Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation on Wednesday. Wild Justice wrote to the PCNPA with criticism of the assessment of the impact of the development. We are now getting advice on whether a legal challenge of the decision is possible - see our blog - click here.
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