Rowing Ratbag’s parents drop law suit
The St Bedes rowing saga rolls on with the ratbag parents of the ratbag rower now dropping the case.
Two fathers who took legal action to prevent a Christchurch school from barring their sons from a national rowing competition will not pursue the matter.
In a statement from the St Bede’s College board of trustees, lawyer Garth Gallaway said the parents of rowers Jack Bell, 16, and Jordan Kennedy, 17, would not take any further legal action.
Legal action had been expected after the school tried to bar the teenagers from the Maadi Cup last week.
An interim injunction granted by the High Court allowed the boys back on the school’s rowing team after the principal axed them from the regatta for breaching Auckland Airport security.
Gallaway said the boys’ parents, Shane Kennedy and Antony Bell, would not pursue a substantive claim against the school.
“This means that the parents will not be taking this further through the courts, which in my view is entirely appropriate,” he said. Read more »

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