A Manifestly Excessive Penalty, and the Big Issue That the Judge Ducked and Dodged – Welcome to the Sheryl Wigg Decision – Just Don’t Open the Box Mr RIB CEO – There’s a Ticking Time Bomb Inside

This is the list of comparative sentences tabled in Sheryl Wigg’s appeal to the High Court against the sentence imposed on the amateur driver and trainer after an undercover surveillance team from the RIB caught her administering a paste made up of turmeric and black pepper to one of her horses on the day of […]

Mud in Your Eye Muzza – Why the RIB Appeals Committee Judgement in the Case of Sheryl Wigg is Fatally Flawed – And Why She Will Win in the High Court (First Published 12 May 2022))

The Appellant draws a distinction with the constitution of benches in the Court of Appeal, which regularly involves one permanent Court of Appeal Judge and two sitting High Court Judges. Considering the process outlined above, it is clear that there is an analogy, rather than a distinction, to be drawn between the Appeals Tribunal and […]

Racing People Have Human Rights Too – Its About Time They Were Afforded to Them by the Stipes

It’s an extract from the QRIC Penalty Sentencing Guidelines for offences proven to have been committed by errant thoroughbred racing licensees. What it’s talking about is the compatibility of the guidelines with the legal rights that a person has under the QLD Human Rights Act. The bit we are interested in is this one: The […]

Bloody Dog Trainers – They Should Be More Like the Gallops Folk – Genteel – Anyone Got a Stock Whip, a Jigger or a Needle? – Ssshhh, Look the Other Way

D0n’t mess with Doctor Dream He’s not one for sympathyHe will bring you to your kneesLose your troublesEase your pain This is the price you must pay Remember this story below? Re-read it if you don’t. It’s about how the QRIC kept a dog with a broken leg out in the sun writhing in pain, […]

Ben Yole Moves into South Australia – And Harness Racing SA Sinks Even Deeper into Disrepute

This is hard to believe, but rather than step back from the fire presently engulfing him, the accused race fixer and certain animal abuser Ben Yole has decided to stretch his wings further by expanding his operations into Adelaide. And the South Australian authorities have given him their blessing! Yole – who to the best […]

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