- Title
- ‘Making change: Digital activism and public pressure on livestock welfare’
- Creator
- Mummery, Jane; Rodan, Debbie; Nolton, Marnie
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/156498
- Identifier
- vital:11433
- Identifier
- http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/articles/issue-6/mummery-rodan-nolton-making-change/
- Identifier
- ISSN: 2200-8616
- Abstract
- Legal protection of animal welfare in Australia is problematic with livestock (defined here as all animals farmed for use and profit, including poultry and aquatic animals) being effectively excluded from the majority of animal protection statutes. Such legal exclusions, joined with the inherent challenges of legal reform in this field—significant issues to do with standing, costs bearing and jurisdiction—have increased the difficulties of successful litigation. Despite explicit recognition of the necessity for reform in Australian animal law—in 2008 the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, described animal welfare and animal rights as the ‘next great social justice movement’—a number of legal strategies for reform have been summed up by the Principal Solicitor for the Pro Bono Animal Law Service (PALS), the national legal referral service for animal law operating between 2009 and 2013, as having been exhausted. Specifically, the challenges of standing and costs bearing have meant that many meritorious animal welfare matters have not been able to be pursued within the legal domain
- Relation
- New Media Philosophy Vol. 6, no. (2016), p.
- Rights
- Copyright unknown
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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