Editing Hunting Act 2004 (section)

==Failed challenges==
Challenges to the Act which questioning the legality of the [[Parliament Act 1949]] in the [[High Court of Justice of England and Wales|High Court]] and [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] failed (for example ''[[Jackson v Attorney General]]''). The [[Judicial functions of the House of Lords|House of Lords]] in their judicial capacity agreed with the lower courts in a judgment delivered in October 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2005/56.html|title=Jackson and others v. Her Majesty's Attorney General UKHL 56|date=13 October 2005|publisher=British and Irish Legal Information Institute|access-date=19 February 2008}}</ref>

An application for [[judicial review]] was made to the [[High Court of England and Wales]] which argued that the [[anti-hunting]] legislation contravenes individual human or [[Property|property rights]] protected in the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] (ECHR) and under [[European Community law]] and on grounds of the [[Four Freedoms (European Union)|free movement of goods and services]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countryside-alliance.org/images/stories/pdf/L_legal_challenges_update_19_July_2005.pdf |title=Legal challenges update |publisher=Countryside Alliance |date=19 July 2005}}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The application was dismissed by the High Court in July 2005,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2005/1677.html|title=The Countryside Alliance and others v. H.M. Attorney General and others [2005] EWHC 1677 (Admin)|date=29 July 2005|publisher=British and Irish Legal Information Institute|access-date=19 February 2008}}</ref> the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] in June 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/817.html|title=''R. (oao The Countryside Alliance; oao Derwin and others) v. Her Majesty's Attorney General and Secretary of State of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs'' [2006] EWCA Civ 817|date=23 June 2006|publisher=British and Irish Legal Information Institute|access-date=19 February 2008}}</ref> and the House of Lords in November 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldjudgmt/jd071128/countr-1.htm|publisher=House of Lords|title=R (oao Countryside Alliance and others (Appellants)) v Her Majesty's Attorney General and another (Respondents) [2007] UKHL 52|date=December 2007|access-date=19 February 2008}}</ref> An application to the [[European Court of Human Rights]] was ruled inadmissible.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press?i=003-2967635-3291404|publisher=ECHR| date=15 December 2009|access-date=18 December 2009|title=Press release issued by the Registrar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Friend and Others v. the United Kingdom (dec.) |url=http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-96372}}</ref>