Cases

The offence of cruelty (cases prior to the Animal Welfare Act 2006)
Ford v Wiley (1889) 23 QBD 203
RSPCA v Issacs [1994] Crim LR 517
Isted v CPS [1998] Crim LR 194
Tutin v Mary Chipperfield Promotions Ltd QBD 23 May 1980
RSPCA v Miller [1994] Crim LR 516
Worcestershire CC v Tongue [2004] EWCA Civ 140
Peterssen v RSPCA [1993] Crim LR 852
Hussey v RSPCA [2007] All ER (D) 57 (Mar)

Farm animals
Ford v Wiley (1889) 23 QBD 203
Roberts v Ruggiero (1985) QBD, 3 April.
R (ciwf) v. Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2004] EWCA Civ 1009
R (on the application of Swami Suryananda (as a representative of the community of the many names of God) v Welsh Ministers (2007).

Animal experimentation
Covance Laboratories Ltd and Covance Laboratories Incorporated v PETA Europe Ltd and others 16th June 2005 (High Court decision).
R (Buav) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (April 2005, Burnton J).
R (Buav) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWHC 1964 (Admin)

International cases on the legal status of animals
A petition in a Brazilian court for Habeas Corpus in favour of a chimpanzee called Suica . Judge Edmundo Lucio da Cruz delivered the opinion of the court.

N.R.Nair and Others v. Union of India, High Court of Kerala, India, 1999.

In April 2007 an Austrian court examined the question of whether a chimpanzee can be a legal person and therefore capable of having a legal guardian appointed by the court:

Report in the Guardian newspaper

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