A farmer has lost a case to save his flock of sheep from being culled after he failed to comply with a legal requirement to register them. The decision was handed down yesterday by an Appeals Court which upheld a previous ruling delivered by a magistrate in July 2014, paving the way for the 200 animals to be culled. The magistrate had ruled that a previous culling of about the same number of the farmers' sheep, carried out in 2012, was justified on the grounds of safeguarding public health. The decision by the veterinary authorities was lawful because failing to register the animals triggered an automatic suspicion that they were ill, the magistrate had ruled. The Appeals Court, presided over by Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri, Judge Giannino Caruana Demajo and Judge Noel Cuschieri, agreed that the lack of proper traceability of food-producing animals meant that the Director of Veterinary Services had reasonable cause for suspicion and therefore acted lawfully when he had ordered the culling. The case dates back to November 2012, when farmer Gianni Attard took court action against the Department of Veterinary Services in an attempt to stop it from slaughtering more of his sheep...
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