The Animal Rights Team at Goldsmith Chambers was founded by a group of members with a long-standing commitment to and expertise in animal rights.
London, England
Joined August 2020
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Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
🇪🇸 New Blog: “Beyond Market Value: Moral Damages for Injury to Companion Animals in Spain and Comparative Perspectives” by Thalía López Sancho
🔗 alaw.org.uk/blog/2026/10/30/…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
🚨 New York City Council has voted 40–7 to ban horse-drawn carriages by June 2028! 🐴
Romanch’s Law marks a significant step forward for the welfare of the city’s carriage horses.
#AnimalWelfare #HorseWelfare #NewYorkCity
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
🐷 The government is consulting on phasing out CO₂ stunning of pigs, which causes significant pain and distress and affects around 25,000 pigs a day in the UK.
⏰ Anyone can respond by 21 December 2026:
consultations.defra.gov.uk/p…
#PigWelfare
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
📢 NEW REPORT: Putting Animals Back into the Animal Welfare Act
20 years on, a new Animal Law Foundation report highlights the gap between the Animal Welfare Act 2006’s intended protections and their enforcement in practice.
🦆 Read the report: animallawfoundation.org/repo…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
A-LAW Chair Sonul Badiani-Hamment joined animal welfare experts at Defra Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime Conference at Kew Gardens.
Sonul highlighted the need for clear laws, robust enforcement and appropriate sentencing to ensure meaningful protection for animals.
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
Please support @LimbeWildlife they are doing great work : For the Giving Day For Apes campaign here is the link for the donation page: givingdayforapes.org/organiz…
And here is the link for the Emergency Flood Appeal donation page: givingdayforapes.org/story/n…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
⚖️ The Upper Tribunal has ruled that secrecy surrounding UK animal experiments is unlawful, following a Freedom of Information case brought by Cruelty Free International.
🐰 Read more: crueltyfreeinternational.org… 
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
🎆 Just under 3 weeks left to respond to the UK Government’s fireworks consultation!
🐾 Have your say on protecting animals from firework-related distress.
⏰ Closes 7 October.
🔗 gov.uk/government/consultati…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
Granting animals legal rights isn’t about giving them all of the rights humans have—it’s about recognizing who they already are. In @CivilBeat, attorney & chair of the HSBA #AnimalLaw Section, Savannah Sherman, breaks down the NhRP’s case in #Hawaii: bit.ly/4hg85NS
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
🌊 Should rivers have legal rights?
A House of Commons briefing examines the growing global movement to give rivers legal rights, and what this could mean for environmental protection in the UK.
📎 researchbriefings.files.parl…
#RightsOfNature #EnvironmentalLaw
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
🐴 Should horse-drawn carriages still operate in New York’s Central Park?
Our latest blog by Acland Bryant and Mikhail Popov explores the growing calls to retire the horses, weighing tradition against animal welfare and public safety. 🧲
Read more 👇
alaw.org.uk/blog/2026/07/30/…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
🐕 Is It Time to Ban Greyhound Racing in England? Niamh McConnell explores the growing calls for a ban, the UK’s current approach, and whether England should follow Scotland and Wales.
🖇️ alaw.org.uk/blog/2026/07/08/…
#AnimalLaw #GreyhoundRacing #AnimalWelfare
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
On 1 July, A-LAW Chair Sonul Badiani-Hamment attended the launch of the global coalition to abolish trophy hunting at Houses of Parliament, with founder Eduardo Gonçalves.
The event brought together politicians, conservationists and public figures.
✍️: bit.ly/abolish-trophy-huntin…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
📢UK Animal Law Conference 2026 – Speakers
🐮Dr Howe – Animal welfare in the Farming and Countryside Programme
🇿🇦David Bilchitz – How should Animal Protection Institutions be designed
🐔Emma Slawinski – Putting Animals Back Into The Animal Welfare Act
alaw.org.uk/animal-law-confe…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
📢 UK Conference Speaker Announcement
👩🏼🏫 Mara-Daria Cojocaru &👩🏻⚖️ Michelle Strauss - ‘Mixed, not scrambled. Listening, co-creating and legislating beyond the human’.
👨🏻⚖️ Oliver Francis-Jones - ‘An explosive debate for firework regulations’.
Register: alaw.org.uk/animal-law-confe…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
📢 More speakers for UK Animal Law Conference 2026:
🐶 Christina Warner – Pets & Domestic Abuse
👩🏻🏫 Marine Lercier – Online Animal Rights Law Education that Leads to Change
👨🏻🏫 Dr Lev Bromberg – Non-Human Animals in Artificial Intelligence
Register: alaw.org.uk/animal-law-confe…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
It’s #WorldWildlifeDay2026
A day to celebrate life in all its rich, diverse & amazing forms & raise awareness of the need to protect and preserve all species on Earth
It’s a sobering fact, but in the last 50 years – since the widespread adoption of factory farming – the total number of wild mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians and birds worldwide has plummeted by 50%
#FactoryFarming is devastating for our health, animals & our planet #EndIt
@CIWF_Global
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
Octopuses are remarkable (8 legs, 3 hearts, blue-green blood & much more) & proposed farming of them @PescanovaCorp is completely at odds with everything we understand about the species & what we know to be morally right
We must END.IT
Ask policymakers to sign our global pledge calling for a ban on this cruel & unsustainable industry: bit.ly/478yLvO
@CIWF_Global
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first theguardian.com/environment/…
Goldsmith Animal Rights retweeted
Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
@horton_official
“Exclusive: Ministers also expected to announce trail-hunting ban in sweeping changes to animal welfare law”
At last, help for our precious wildlife
Let’s hope action speaks louder than words
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
