Barristers Animal Welfare Panel
The Barristers Animal Welfare Panel (BAWP) comprises some 120 barristers from across Australia, including a significant number of senior counsel and many members of the Victorian Bar.
The Panel's objectives are:
- to represent and advise litigants in matters of public interest affecting animal welfare on a pro bono or reduced fee basis, instructed under the auspices of PILCH or direct by different law firms
- to challenge publicly or otherwise the existing deficient animal protection legal regime in Australia, where most animals are exempt from its protective reach, and for this purpose, to formulate and prosecute proposals for law reform
- to advise or appear in the defence of protesters
- to promote the adoption by law schools of ‘animal law' as a subject
- to encourage the participation by other legal professionals, law students or persons with non-legal skills in our programs and cases, especially by membership of the BAWP Secretariat
Full details of the Panel are available via its website, www.bawp.org.au