A Michael Broad Blog
“…At one point in history, black slaves were not considered legal people….” New York’s Supreme Court could confer upon a 26-year-old chimpanzee called Tommy non-human rights akin to human rights. The person making the application to the court on behalf of Tommy is a lawyer, Stephen Wise who is the president of the Nonhuman …
Was this pensioner fined enough for killing cats? The exact number is probably not known but according to the story1 five cats belonging to the pensioner’s neighbours were poisoned. £125 seems a very small fine when the maximum that he could have been fined was £5,000. How many cats does a person have to …
Background: this is a follow up to the article about the Hartford Humane Society who assessed a cat brought in as feral and killed her almost immediately when in fact the cat was Mistoffelees, a long term cat companion to Robert Brooks. Mistoffelees was declawed and totally domesticated. It is quite possible that the …
The law of contract concerning cats is, as you might expect, the same law of contract concerning any object, item or product. It is identically to the law of contract that governs a purchase at the checkout of a supermarket or when buying a car for example. You don’t have to have an actual …
UK legislation and the Bengal breed Bengal cats technically fall within the ambit of The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976. This is a piece of legislation that “regulates the keeping of certain kinds of dangerous animals as pets”. In theory (but perhaps not in practice) people who “own” (I dislike this word in relation …
