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Offences Involving Domestic and Captive Animals

Updated: 29 June 2023

This legal guidance provides Prosecutors with information to assist in reviewing and prosecuting offences involving domestic and captive animals. This guidance also gives information on private prosecutions led by the RSPCA, including considerations when taking over and discontinuing such prosecutions.

Prosecution Guidance Wildlife and Domestic Animals

Hare Coursing

Updated: 01 December 2021: 01 August 2022

This legal guidance provides prosecutors with information to assist in reviewing and prosecuting cases of hare coursing. Hare coursing is the pursuit of hares with sight hounds, which chase the hare by sight and not by scent. This type of offending can also be known as hare poaching.

Prosecution Guidance Wildlife and Domestic Animals

Hunting Act 2004, The

Updated: 20 August 2019

This legal guidance on the Hunting Act 2004 (the Act) is for prosecutors and caseworkers.

Prosecution Guidance Wildlife and Domestic Animals

Wildlife Offences

Updated: 28 January 2022; minor revision: 1 March 2023; 12 August 2024; 2 October 2024

The conservation of wildlife is an area in which the police play an investigative and enforcement role and where the CPS are called upon to prosecute in accordance with the provisions of the Code for Crown Prosecutors. See also Relations with Other Prosecutions Agencies, elsewhere in the legal guidance.

Prosecution Guidance Wildlife and Domestic Animals