Cropp battle takes another step

Champion jockey Lisa Cropp's long-running drugs case is set to be extended again as she seeks leave from the Supreme Court to contest a decision which went against her.

Cropp has been fighting ever since she tested positive to methamphetamine in a urine sample taken in a routine random test at a race meeting in Hamilton on May 7, 2005.

The hearing by racing's Judicial Control Authority was interrupted in February after her lawyers sought a judicial review to argue the drug test was unlawful.

Cropp's legal team had argued that the racing industry had no right to drug test the jockey because it was an interference with the fundamental right to refuse to give bodily samples.

Justice Pamela Andrews dismissed Cropp's case in the High Court, and her decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal. Cropp's lawyer Barry Hart said the jockey would seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.

- NZPA