BBC: Court backs hunting ban - A challenge by the Scottish Countryside Alliance against a new law banning hunting with hounds is rejected. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2162766.stm
BBC: Court showdown over hunting - Pro-hunt supporters launch their legal bid to have a ban on hunting with hounds overturned at the Court of Session. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2080670.stm
BBC: Hunt ban 'threat' to rural life - A ban on hunting with dogs threatens the traditional way of life in the countryside, the Court of Session in Edinburgh is told. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2098871.stm
BBC: Lawyer rejects hunt ban payout - Compensation for people who claim their livelihoods will be ruined by the ban on foxhunting is ruled out by a lawyer for the Scottish Executive. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2094093.stm
Telegraph: Holyrood's power to ban hunts challenged - The court hearing on whether the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill breaches the European Convention on Human Rights begins. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/06/nhunt06.xml
Telegraph: Judge blocks threat to hunt ban - Tom Peterkin. Claim that the Scottish Parliament should be sued instead of the Advocate General was denied. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2002/07/04/nshunt04.xml
