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Post by Mel Mel on Jul 29, 2007 21:15:24 GMT
An anti-vivisection campaign group won a partial victory yesterday in its High Court claim that the Government was failing in its legal duty to ensure animal suffering was kept to a minimum in UK laboratories.
A judge held that the Home Office was acting unlawfully in licensing invasive brain experiments on marmosets at Cambridge University on the basis that "moderate" rather than "substantial" suffering was likely to be caused.
Mr Justice Mitting said the Home Office was relying on expert advice which understated the extent of the "pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm" that could be caused to the animals....continued... news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2811648.ece
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Post by wowposter on Sept 9, 2008 0:57:17 GMT
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Post by wowposter on Sept 9, 2008 15:16:09 GMT
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