As you are hopefully aware, yesterday's injunction order (see update 29th Dec) was made after a wider Judicial Review application to the court made on the 23rd Dec.

With the injunction now in place, we enter a new phase of the campaign to seek transparent process and hopefully to save the trees, with the potentially still significant costs that a judicial review will present in terms of our own legal representation and time for evidence collation and so on.
 
We have been lucky to work with some of the best in the business - Richard Buxton of Richard Buxton Solicitors and with Paul Powlesland as barrister - who are going above and beyond for us and we are so grateful for their help, but we do of course need to be able to pay for their time to progress further in this case.
 
With this in mind, we launch a new CrowdJustice fundraiser which will go live from 8.30pm today seeking to raise an additional £15-20,000 on top of the funds already raised to date. You can see the Crowdjustice page here. We expect that this then should provide sufficient coverage for us to pursue the judicial review should that be how this unfolds, and keep a range of options open to us. Crowdjustice is a platform geared specifically for legal cases such as ours, and so is well placed for this particular targeted fundraising effort, so we have now closed the previous Crowdfunder page. 

We have a deadline of 29 days to go on the fundraiser, and if we don't meet our minimum target of £10,000 then we will not receive any of these funds.

I am very conscious that I am writing to you at perhaps the worst time of year for asking for money - with Christmas just out of the way and a long stretch to that January payday. So if you can't support now, but could save a reminder in your calendar for payday with a link, we would really appreciate your support whenever you are able to. With more than 5,000 of you having signed this petition, a donation of £20 from even just 10% of you would help us to hit this new minimum target. 

Of course, none of us wanted to be in a position of pursuing a legal dispute and I had personally very much hoped and expected this matter would be resolved out of court. I am very disappointed to be in this position.There have been significant concerns over the range of statutory processes that remain incomplete and that concerns over the evidence base to fell the trees have been not fully taken into account.

I know many of you have already generously contributed, or pledged future contributions, to help us to pay for the previous Independent Expert Evaluation report and for legal costs to this point, for which we are very grateful. If you are in a position to be able to give (or even to give again), it would be hugely appreciated, or if you could share this new fundraiser with friends and useful contacts that would be a huge help too.