Watson, Joe http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4205-0543
Aglionby, Guy http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8726-2799
March, Samuel
Article History
Accepted: 5 April 2022
First Online: 8 May 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests. There is and has been no financial relationship between any author and any organisation of relevance to this work. Further, no author is currently in any negotiations regarding future paid employment with any organisation of relevance. Samuel March (the third author and domain expert in this research) works as a part-time paralegal (volunteer) at Advocates for Animals, having held this position since April 2020. Joe Watson (the first author) also works as a part-time paralegal (volunteer) at Advocates for Animals and began this position in December 2020. The voluntary positions held by Samuel March and Joe Watson are provided for reasons of transparency, yet Advocates for Animals has had no influence on the contents of this paper.
: Numerous ethical considerations were taken into account. The manuscript has not been submitted or published anywhere else, nor will it be submitted elsewhere until completion of the editorial process. We provide access to our code and information on where the data underlying our research is available. Additionally, all authors have approved the manuscript for submission and consent to publication should this submission be successful. This research did not directly involve any human or animal participants. All humans (aside from the domain expert, who is also the third author) and animals mentioned in the document text are present in court judgments publicly available on BAILII.
: No humans or animals beyond the listed authors participated directly in this research. As such, consent to participate was not sought.
: No humans or animals beyond the listed authors participated directly in this research, and all humans (aside from the domain expert) and animals mentioned in the document text are present in court judgments publicly available on BAILII. Consent to publish was therefore not sought.