Practical Approach to Animal Welfare Law Sweeney Noel
Historically, animal law has been a piecemeal legislative process of amendments and repeals. The slow progress of the legislation has finally resulted in the introduction of the two main criminal…
Specifikacia Practical Approach to Animal Welfare Law Sweeney Noel
Historically, animal law has been a piecemeal legislative process of amendments and repeals. The slow progress of the legislation has finally resulted in the introduction of the two main criminal statutes affecting animals in the UK, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. These two statutes account for almost all offenses of animal abuse in every conceivable form relating to the duty of owners and their concurrent liability and responsibility. A Practical Approach to Animal Welfare Law-designed to be informative and interesting to a broad, lay audience-covers all aspects of those two Acts as they affect animals. This book analyzes the law relating to the criminal responsibility of owners and their duty of care for the welfare of their animals, including injuring and killing them. The prosecution of offenders in the UK is investigated through the enforcement powers