Rugby injunction

Press, 27 July 1985, Page 18

Rugby injunction

Sir, — Correspondents have queried the “status quo” aspect of the High Court judgment. Other queries arise. The judgment seems more the summing-up of a full and final hearing than an interim injunction granted to enable both parties the opportunity to fairly present all evidence at a later date. Thirty men of varied respected occupations and after undoubted soul-searching, chose of their own free will to tour South Africa as All Blacks but were effectively denied the right to do so. In addition, however, the judgment clearly infers a consequence of the players’ choice might have been “violence, bloodshed or even loss of life” in a country which possibly knows its own business best. It is not the business of any court judgment to cause, by its comments, the reported distress, outrage and perhaps permanent sense of deep injustice in those innocent of any proven, provable irresponsible act or committed crime. — Yours, etc., G. H. AGER. July 26, 1985.