Law firms and barristers’ chambers offering specialist animal law services are few and far between.  They exist and are on the rise but are still a rare beast (pardon the pun).  It may be that the paucity of service offerings in this field is due - in part at least – to the nebulous and disparate nature of animal law as a concept.  That may be so, but isn’t the same true of many legal disciplines?  Few would argue that property law encompasses a narrow and neatly confined set of principles, but you don’t have to look far to find lawyers and law firms willing to assist with your property related affairs. 
 By Paul Fuller, Business and Property barrister at 42 Bedford Row
Assuming the drivers are purely economic, there is a strong incentive for animal law services to be much more widely ava...