RACECOURSE BAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 10

RACECOURSE BAN

PRIVY COUNCIL RULING

(Received February 27, 10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

The Privy Council has allowed with costs the appeal of Sir Colin Stephen, chairman of the Australian Jockey Club, against the majority decision of the Full Court of.the Supreme Court of New South Wales restraining the A.J.C. from preventing Rufus Nay lor from entering Rahdwick Racecourse on race days on the payment prescribed in the charges. ■ In announcing the judgment, Lord Justice Roche said that disqualification was well known and legitimate. Indeed, it was a necessary safeguard to secure the absence from a racecourse of persons found guilty of conduct gravely detrimental to the interests of racing. "The respondent was disqualified because he impeded by lying the course of a necessary and proper inquiry, and he has to suffer not because he consented to be bound by the rules but because he permitted himself so to act as'to bring his actions within their purview. The bylaw was not intended to convey, and did not convey, any reference to moral character or qualities unconnected with racing and racecourses. It meant no more and no less than it would if it had been couched in less formal language conferring the right to refuse admission to those who, in popular language, are sometimes known as racecourse undesirables."