Report today on thefirst trial for breaching the fox-hunting ban in Scotland.

Trevor Adams, 46, joint master of the Duke of Buccleuch’s Foxhounds,
was charged with hunting a fox with 20 hounds, two months after the
sport was outlawed. But a sheriff found that he was "searching" for
foxes, not hunting them.

Apparently the whole situation is even worse than I thought.  They can’t even draft a bill properly. Sheesh.

He added: "This ruling has shown that it will be virtually impossible
to prosecute anyone, as flushing out foxes for the purpose of control
has been proved to be entirely different from hunting for all legal
purposes."

I also found this to be interesting:

All 10 Scottish hunts are still operating, and twice as many foxes are
being killed each year by the "fox control" method of flushing them to
waiting guns.