A package of law trials aimed at enhancing fan and player experience will be adopted as a global trial across all competitions from 2025.

A package of law trials aimed at enhancing fan and player experience will be adopted as a global trial across all competitions from 2025 after the World Rugby Council voted in favour of change.

World Rugby Council members have rejected two proposed law trials at the latest council meeting in Dublin. Proposals for a global trial to call a mark inside the 22-metre line from kick-offs, and to make teams play the ball after a maul has been stopped once,

Four law trials aimed at speeding up the game, reducing time-wasting and "enhancing the fan experience" will be introduced on a global trial across all competitions from Jan. 1 2025, World Rugby said on Thursday after its Council approved the changes.

Four new laws - including conversion shot clocks and less penalising of crooked line-out throws - will be introduced into the game worldwide from January.