High court case against West Sussex hunt saboteurs
A LEGAL bid to ban hunt protesters from thousands of acres of private estate and farm land in West Sussex started this week in the High Court in London.
The Crawley and Horsham hunt, together with more than 80 of its landowners, is attempting to stop saboteurs trespassing and causing harassment and nuisance to the hunt. The case is being brought under the Protection From Harassment Act.
The hunt has employed a leading harassment lawyer,Tim Lawson-Cruttendden, to lead the ground-breaking civil action which it hopes will put a stop to the tactics used by the Sussex Wildlife Protection group and its two main organisers, Simon and Jaine Wilde of Bognor Regis, who have denied allegations against them.
For full story see West Sussex Gazette October 22