Animals and Property Rights

42BR's Animal Welfare Group invite you to our attend our upcoming webinar, discussing Animals and Property Rights.

The webinar, featuring Marcia Hyde, Edmund Walters and Paul Fuller, will explore the law which defines animals as property and chattels compared with the emerging idea that animals can own property – specifically land.

The session will conclude in a panel discussion, followed by the opportunity to ask questions.

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Speakers

• Marcia Hyde

Marcia specialises in children work and has almost 30 years’ experience at the family bar. She undertakes both public and private law work.

Marcia’s main practice involves serious & complex child abuse matters including those where there are issues of sexual abuse, non-accidental injury and the death of a child. She acts on behalf of local authorities, parents, children’s guardians and extended family members in such cases at all levels of court. She also has a particular interest in cases relating to contact with children in local authority care.

In private law work Marcia has a particular interest in domestic abuse and especially controlling and coercive behaviours.

Marcia is the Head of the Animal Welfare Group. She has highlighted the links between domestic abuse, child abuse and animal abuse in her work on controlling or coercive behaviours. These links have led Marcia to start to develop her practice into the numerous areas of law which impact on animal welfare. Post Brexit and with the recent passing of the Animal Welfare (Sentience Act) 2022, Marcia believes her extensive work in protecting children and vulnerable adults through a forensic and welfare analysis at all court levels will enable her to continue to develop this group.

• Edmund Walters

Edmund has experience in both civil and criminal law. He is a specialist in property and regulatory law.

His criminal practice has a particular focus on the following areas:-

• Fraud, including property, employee and benefit fraud
• Regulatory offences including environmental, planning and licensing offences of all types
• Edmund is both a defence advocate and a prosecutor for local authorities.

His civil practice covers the following areas:-

• Regulatory law, including licensing of all types and environmental law, in cases both for and against local authoritie
• Landlord and tenant, both commercial and residential
• Property disputes, including cases concerning boundaries, party walls, easements, rights to light and restrictive covenants
• Leasehold enfranchisement
• Commercial and contractual disputes
• Company and personal insolvency

Mr Walters also covers professional negligence.

• Mr Paul Fuller

Paul transferred to the Bar in 2021 following a successful career as a litigation solicitor, where Paul headed up the dispute resolution team at a leading law firm.

Paul regularly acts and advises in high value, complex proceedings both in the county courts and the High Court. Paul’s expertise covers property litigation (both residential and commercial), complex contract disputes, actions in negligence, company and commercial law, insolvency proceedings and contentious probate.

Paul has advised on dog ownership cases and is also a trustee at his local RSPCA branch.