BLEATS - Brisbane Lawyers Educating and Advocating for Tougher Sentences

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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. Solicitor Tracy-Lynne Geysen was horrified by the spate of animal cruelty cases reported in the local media and decided to look into what the law was actually doing to deter the ongoing abuse.

“I was watching the news one day recently and a report came on about a dog that was found hanging from a tree. The announcer said the people who found the dog were shocked but no offender had been located,” she said. “Then there was the attempted skinning of a live cat and the rescue of close to one hundred animals from a house in Central Queensland. I wanted to see if justice was being served and I found out it manifestly was not!”

She found she was not alone. A number of equally disgusted lawyers and colleagues came together to form BLEATS and their supporters are growing daily. Since starting out in 2007 BLEATS has made an enormous impact on the lives of animals in Queensland and has played a major part in bringing justice to animal cruelty perpetrators. Today BLEATS is well recognised by the Queensland courts and in the broader community as being the legal representatives of the RSPCA.