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World Sports Law Report

Discussion of sports news and legal issues, focusing on Great Britain and Europe.
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Last Entry: May 25, 2010 at 14:46:20

Sports Law Weekly Round Up: 29 May

Posted on May 30, 2009
 Other than reading and analysing the Matuzalem case, one of the most interesting articles I came across this week turned out to be a non-story. The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) confirmed that South Africa's consideration of...

Foot Anstey Sports Law Conference

Posted on May 27, 2009
Foot Anstey Solicitors is organising a Sports Law Conference based at their offices in Plymouth, with proceeds dedicated to Jeremiah's Journey, a Plymouth-based charity that offers support to families and children who suffer a bereavement. The programme...

Sports Law Weekly Round Up: 22 May

Posted on May 23, 2009
Since the creation of the European Union enshrined free movement of workers across borders, there have been a number of important sporting rulings testing these principles. Bosman, Webster and Kolpak immediately spring to mind, however I am sure that...

London 2012: athlete image rights

Posted on May 22, 2009
 Top British athletes are to meet with UK Sport and the British Olympic Association (BOA) to try to settle a potential dispute over the use of their valuable image rights. UK Sport wants athletes to sign a contract to be part of a sponsorship...

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Sports Law Weekly Round Up: 15 May

Posted on May 16, 2009
There have been plenty of interesting articles this week regarding the Premier League's 30-page plan to reform its business model in response to calls from the government for the competition to reassess its relationship with money, including its decision...

Sports Law Weekly Round Up: 8 May

Posted on May 08, 2009
 Two strange sporting results took place during the past week, both of which have implications for the regulation of sport. The first and the most obvious was the behaviour of Chelsea players towards the referee in the Chelsea vs. Barcelona...

Sports Law Weekly Round Up: 1 May 2009

Posted on May 02, 2009
 It has been an extremely busy week in the world of sports regulation, which perhaps explains why most of the sports lawyers I have spoken to this week have been rushed off their feet. In a new feature launched today by World Sports Law Report,...

WSLR Speaker Calls For Action On Player Abuse

Posted on April 23, 2009
Nick Cusack, Senior Executive at the Professional Footballers' Association, has called on football authorities to be  'get tough' in their efforts to curb abuse from football crowds.'Unless FIFA and UEFA deduct points or disqualify teams from...

Premier Rugby and the PFA to speak at Credit Crunch Briefing

Posted on April 23, 2009
 Jon Varney of Premier Rugby and Nick Cusack from the Professional Footballers' Association will speak at The Credit Crunch: Implications for Sport, a World Sports Law Report full-day briefing to be held at the London offices of K&L....

Salary and player restrictions: new balls please

Posted on April 23, 2009
 Salary caps and restrictions on player transfers have been in the news a lot recently. Michel Platini has said he is keen to limit the amount that clubs can spend on player transfers and wages, and FIFA has sent a report stating that its...

Opinion: The negotiating aspects of sports mediation

Posted on February 11, 2009
 Sport continues to be big business - it is worth more than 3% of world trade and more than 2% of the combined GNP of the 27 Member States of the European Union - despite the so-called 'credit crunch', which has had little impact as far as...

WSLR Breaks News of WADA Whereabouts Challenge

Posted on February 04, 2009
 World Sports Law Report s January edition broke news of a legal challenge to the World Anti-Doping Agency s whereabouts requirements under the World Anti-Doping Code, which requires athletes to state where they will be for one hour each day...

177 Sites Illegally Streaming Premier League Football in 2007/8

Posted on January 28, 2009
 The FA Premier League (FAPL) has revealed that during the 2007/8 season, it identified 177 different sites which contained or were connected to unauthorised streaming of Premier League football matches . The FAPL made its announcement in response...

Briefing in Nice on the Specificity of Sport

Posted on December 23, 2008
 The Sports Law Centre at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis is organising a briefing on 16 January in Nice about the specificity of sport . The aim of this briefing is to analyse the notion of specificity of sports in order to justify a...

2009: Sports Law Predictions

Posted on December 22, 2008
Readers of World Sports Law Report will know that the journal features insightful - and sometimes exclusive - news articles, plus features examining current issues in sports law written by expert lawyers. However, at Christmas time - after a few mince...

IOC Rejects EBU Bid for 2014-16 Olympic Broadcast Rights

Posted on December 17, 2008
Sports broadcasting rights are significant money spinners for sports bodies and sports event organisers. The current three-season deal ending in 2010 for the TV rights to the English Premier League, one of the richest Football Leagues in the world,...

Bundesliga Beats Premier League: Avoids Recession

Posted on November 28, 2008
The news that the total value of shirt sponsorship in Germany s Bundesliga has overtaken that of England s Premier League did not come as a surprise, despite the fact that there are 18 Bundesliga clubs compared to the Premier League s 20. Sport+Markt,...

Tackling Doping In Sport: IOC, UK Sport & Dwain Chambers

Posted on October 17, 2008
Howard Stupp, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Director of Legal Affairs and Andy Parkinson, UK Sport's Acting Director of Drug Free Sport will be available at Tackling Doping in Sport to discuss the IOC's recent decision to re-test samples...

Lance Armstrong Misses Opportunity to Clear His Name on Return

Posted on October 08, 2008
The seven times winner of the Tour de France, the 37 year old Texan Lance Armstrong, announced recently - to the great surprise of the cycling world - that he was returning to compete in the 2009 Tour, after an absence of more than three years. Doubts...

FIG Concludes Investigation Into Age of Beijing Gymnasts

Posted on October 08, 2008
The F d ration Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) has concluded its investigation into the age of Chinese gymnasts who competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, following allegations that double gold medal winner He Kexin (何可欣)...

Football League Trapdoor Slams Shut (almost)

Posted on September 24, 2008
Football League Two teams will be breathing a sigh of relief after the trapdoor to the Football Conference prematurely slammed (almost) shut i.e. before the football season has even started. Luton Town will start the 2008/9 season on Saturday at...

World Sports Law Report: Tackling Doping in Sport

Posted on September 24, 2008
Following on from the success of our Player Contracts Briefing in July, which was attended by just under 100 delegates, World Sports Law Report is organising a full-day Briefing examining anti-doping regulations in sport. The Briefing will be hosted....

Liverpool FC sends fan details to wrong person

Posted on September 24, 2008
English Premier League football club, Liverpool FC, has apologised to a group of fans after sending their personal details including passport numbers, addresses and bank details to another person, reports the BBC.The club had optimistically asked...

Premier League pull out of FIFA meeting over 39th game

Posted on September 24, 2008
A press release from FIFA and the Premier League confirmed that the Premier League has decided that 'further internal studies' may be prudent before presenting its plan for a 39th game to world football's governing body.When it announced the plans,...

Webster case defines compensation due for breach of contract

Posted on September 24, 2008
A ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), on 30 January, in which Andrew Webster and Wigan Athletic were found jointly liable for compensating Heart of Midlothian for the wages left on his contract ( 150,000), has clarified compensation...

D j vu: England scuppers another World Cup bid

Posted on September 24, 2008
Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive of the FA Premier League, will not be a popular man at the Football Association today, as his plans for an International Round of Premier League games could endanger England s bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.The...

WADA develops international privacy standard

Posted on September 24, 2008
One of the most interesting snippets of news to come out of Integrity In Sport: Contractual Risk Management, World Sports Law Report s latest briefing hosted by Charles Russell LLP, was that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has developed a draft...

Integrity In Sport: Doping, Betting & Contractual Risk Management

Posted on September 24, 2008
Sporting organisations have been holding high-level meetings about the risks that doping - and especially new forms of betting present to sport. The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last week initiated a series of discussions...

Future of Football: Developing Young English Players

Posted on September 24, 2008
The development of young players was identified as the most pressing problem in English football at the moment, at a conference in London entitled Future of Football: The Conference 2007 . Howard Wilkinson, Chairman of the League Manager s Association,...

Results of FIG s He Kexin age investigation by Monday

Posted on September 24, 2008
The F d ration Internationale Gymnastique (FIG) will announce the results of its investigation into the age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin s (何可欣) age in the next three to four days , said an FIG spokesperson. The difficulty has...

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