However Judge Glenn Martin dismissed the civil case, allowing more than 100 membership applications from women to be processed.
Mr Hogan did not believe the ballot to amend the Rules of Tattersall’s Club (the Rules) to allow women to join was done according to the Rules and therefore was ineffective.
He questioned whether having members write their membership number on the back of the ballot envelopes, instead of providing envelopes with preprinted numbers to identify their eligibility to vote, was consistent with the Club Rules.
Mr Hogan believed that numbered envelopes should be provided as members might forget to inscribe their number or write it in an ilegible way.
Judge Martin said writing member numbers on the envelopes was a minor departure from the procedures set out in the Rules, and the practical effect remained the same.
He said process adopted was substancially consistent with the process for elections by postal ballot set out in the Rules and found that the Court should not intervene in a case of this nature.
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