About Us

A group of Brisbane Lawyers have formed an organisation to campaign for animal justice. Calling themselves BLEATS (Brisbane Lawyers Educating and Advocating for Tougher Sentences) their major aim is to focus attention on the apparent unwillingness or seeming inability of Magistrates to wield their powers under the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001.

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Research

Since the 1960’s, significant criminological research has focused on the link between childhood cruelty toward animals and later violent criminal offending, and there now exists a convincing body of empirical evidence confirming the existence of the ‘Cruelty Connection’. 

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Previous Rulings

WARNING - May Be Disturbing to Some Readers... It describes brutality to animals...

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