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.
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1379777,00.html

Telegraph - We'll Fight Hunt Ban Delay, Says the Animal Rights Lobby
- 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.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/26/nhunt26.xml

Telegraph - Blair Accused of Encouraging Delay to Hunting Act
- 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.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/24/nhunt24.xml

ic NorthWales - Old Scores, Class Wars ... the Real Reasons Behind a Hunting Ban
- 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.
- http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=15003808&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=old-scores--class-wars-----the-real-reasons-behind-a-hunting-ban-name_page.html

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.
- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1372027,00.html

Telegraph - You Can't Hunt...But You Can Chase
- 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.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2004/12/10/nhunt10.xml

Scotsman.com News - Hunting Ban 'Not Class War'
- 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 Govern
- http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3854330

BBC News - 'No-one Can Define New Hunt Ban'
- 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 enforc
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4083283.stm

Game Conservancy Trust - The Hunting Act
- Response to the Government's ban on hunting and the associated problems.
- http://www.gct.org.uk/article.asp?PageId=36&ArticleId=96