Pro-foxhunting group says UK hunters should qualify as a protected ethnic minority group.
Pro-foxhunting group says UK hunters should be protected ethnic minority
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/12/pro-foxhunting-group-says-uk-hunters-protected-ethnic-minority
Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people
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Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people. They have prepared a legal case to try to prove that hunters are an ethnic minority whose hunts should be protected under equality laws.
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Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claims he has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunters unequivocally qualify for legal protection under the UK Equality Act 2010.
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Speaking to the FieldsportsChannel podcast, Swales said: “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”