Lawyer slams DEFRA over CITES chaos

A leading CITES lawyer has criticised DEFRA’s “wholesale failure” to alert the public to law changes, after a court fined a jeweller £2000 for selling antique tiger claw pendants.

Andrew Banks, a partner at law firm StoneKing who defended Annina Vogel at Westminster Magistrates' …

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