Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Dunedin Judge Confirms Rugby’s Privileged Position




Fracture a blokes jaw, punch one of his front teeth out, in a drunken piece of late night street thuggery. 

All because the bloke made a feeble remark about the rugby club jersey you were wearing.   

What would you expect the punishment to be in a case like this? 

An assault conviction would surely be the minimum?  

Unless of course you are an up and coming Otago rugby starlet like Riley McDowall and not say a clerk in a government department. 

As I am at pains to indicate there is a separate law in New Zealand for Rugby players and Judge Kevin Phillips has merely re-confirmed this by discharging this drunken punk without conviction.  

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