On Tuesday 16th October, at the High Court in London, members of North Cambs, Beds & Bucks and Northants Hunt Sabs faced a request for a wide reaching injunction from the Fitzwilliam Hunt, to prevent us from exposing and publicising their systematic law breaking.

In the past 6 months alone, members of the Fitzwillliam Hunt have been convicted for assault, criminal damage and crucially; hunting a fox with dogs. These convictions have all been following evidence submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service by hunt saboteurs.

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Following a new 2018/19 season where the assaults from hunt supporters have already commenced, and complaints to police have started to mount up, the Fitzwilliam have opened their bottomless wallets (the owner of the hunt was listed as one the 100 most wealthy people in the country, in the 2016 Sunday Times rich list) and commenced a hugely expensive legal process to prevent hunt sabs from attending their meets.

In a real-life David vs Goliath case, twelve ordinary working people are now faced with a court case against a multi millionaire owner of some 17,000 acres of hunting land alone. 

While the Fitzwilliam's initial 300 page court submission, followed by two days notice of an initial court hearing, was rejected by the judge; a cut-down injunction which prevents legitimate protest activity against illegal hunting is now under consideration by the courts. 

This is of course above and beyond our normal costs. This draconian effort by the hunt is designed to silence those exact individuals who have embarrassed them by hauling them in front of criminal courts and seeing them convicted. This is an example of the wealthy, landed classes of this country buying protection from the law which applies to everyone else.

We are launching a campaign to help cover our anticipated defence costs.