Classed as property, animals have no legal voice: they need lawyers to advocate for them. Lawyers for Animals is a volunteer-based organisation dedicated to improving the welfare of animals through education and the law.
Lawyers for Animals and other concerned animal welfare groups had the below ad placed in last Sunday’s Age newspaper.
If you want to help us take action on this issue, please follow this link:
https://www.regionalvictoriansotds.com/take-action
In particular, we encourage you to sign this letter addressed to the relevant Victorian ministers:
http://www.123formbuilder.com/form-4364583/stop-the-shooting
LFA’s Nichola Donovan, Rebecca McMahon, and Lauren Hadolt will be speaking at Lucy’s Project’s 2018 Conference on the following topics, respectively:
* working with law enforcement to increase their awareness of animal issues that are associated with domestic violence;
* changing the registration of companion animals; and
* the changes brought about by the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2018, so far as they relate to the keeping of animals.
Tickets can be purchased at: www.trybooking.com/vohu
We have extended the RSVP date to 5pm on Monday, 14 May! Get your tickets now at www.trybooking.com/376219
Book tickets now for LFA’s annual Law Week Trivia Night! It is open to all, the questions are general knowledge, and the profits go to charity! https://www.trybooking.com/376219
Read about LFA’s position here: Animal law enforcement an ongoing battle for NFPs
We hope you’ll join us at our second annual Law Week Trivia Night, to enjoy a fun evening in good company, test your general knowledge and raise money for Edgar’s Mission and Pets Haven, a couple of hard-working animal rescue charities who desperately need it.
The Animal Law Breakfast 2017 RSVP has been extended to 4pm Wednesday 5 April (or until sold out). Limited tickets remain, so act quickly!
You’re warmly invited to attend our fourth Animal Law Breakfast 2017 – see flier attached – for which we are (once again) very grateful to have the generous sponsorship of Maddocks. For those not yet aware, the delicious vegan breakfasts provided by Maddocks’ catering have become legendary within LFA!
This year, with the help of two highly influential speakers in this area
we aim to progress an answer to the question: ‘How can we best improve animal cruelty law enforcement?’
In hopes that you are able join us, here are the event details:
WHEN? Thursday 6 April: 7.15am registration – 7.30am brekkie – 8.00am speeches begin – 8.45am close
WHERE? Maddocks: Collins Square – Tower 2, Level 25, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne
COST? $22 or $16 for current LFA members and concession holders (includes $1.50 booking fee)
RSVP by 4pm Monday 27 March via: http://tix.yt/alb2017
If you have time to read on… by way of background, the theme of our Animal Law Breakfast is quite topical. It coincides with the current ‘Inquiry into RSPCA Victoria’ by a Victorian Parliamentary Standing Committee [submissions close 31 March, see: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.
Lawyers for Animals made submissions to both Inquiries advocating three key reforms:
You may read our rationale for seeking these reforms in each of our submissions, here:
http://lawyersforanimals.org.a
http://lawyersforanimals.org.a
Unfortunately, the Independent Review’s report neither addressed our submissions nor mentioned the New York model of public animal cruelty law enforcement. We are hopeful that the Victorian Government Inquiry will give this model the consideration we feel it deserves, and that RSPCA Victoria may also come to recognise and embrace – as the American SPCA in New York did – the benefits of transitioning to a public law enforcement model, both for themselves and for the animals we all wish to protect.
We hope to see you at the Animal Law Breakfast. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think may be interested. The capacity of the event is limited to 80, so please book early to maximise your chance of securing a seat.
If you have any queries, please email: enquiries@lawyersforanimals.or
