Rugby injunction
Sir,—Satisfaction at seeing the ruggernaut stopped in its tracks cannot preclude disquiet at the legal implications. Have the Courts power to interpret the rules of private organisations? Have they the duty to do so? If the secretary of the Upper Waiho Shuffleboard and Bottle-collecting Club (Inc.) disputes the chairman’s rulings, can he now feel confident of access to the High Court to pursue the squabble? The current judgment appears to be based on tacit acceptance of rugby’s pretensions to be something other than puerile trivia pursued to morbid extremes. If so, it must be a victory for somebody — but hardly for the international standing of the New Zealand legal system. — Yours, etc., S. O. MAHONY. July 14, 1985.
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