News & Media: Animal activists ordered to destroy 14-minute abattoir video
Animal activists ordered to destroy 14-minute abattoir video
Animal activists have lost their last ditch court effort to publish a 14-minute compilation video of alleged animal cruelty filmed inside a Victorian abattoir.
On Wednesday, the High Court of Australia ordered Farm Transparency International delete or destroy all images, and copies, that it obtained from its trespasses from inside the Game Meats Company of Australia's Eurobin abattoir.
"FTI's intention to further publish the films in the future if not restrained from doing so entailed likely future harm to GMC resulting from FTI's acts of trespass, for which damages were not an adequate remedy, and which would be real and not trivial," the judgement, led by High Court of Australia Chief Justice Stephen Gageler, said.
"If the law did not provide a sufficient remedy of this kind, GMC's right to possession of the premises free from unauthorised interference would be incapable of complete vindication and compensation for infringement."
