Court grants permission to expand review into government welfare challenge

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The Animal Law Foundation will now go to a hearing where it will argue that the consultation exercise, which paved the way for the change in law, was unfair

The High Court has granted the Animal Law Foundation permission to expand its judicial review against Defra to challenge its dilution of law, which allows the previously unlawful handling of chickens by their legs.

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