‘The failure by some to cooperate with the independent review into the game’s child sexual abuse scandal was laid bare again on Monday night after it emerged six County Football Associations had not responded to requests for information five months after being asked to do so.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th October 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘British sport’s most senior child protection officer has condemned what she branded “a lack of will” to change the law to prevent coaches having sex with 16 and 17-year-olds under their care on the back of football’s paedophile scandal.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A football fan has been fined after admitting chanting homophobic abuse at rival supporters during a Premier League match.’
The Independent, 14th September 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Former Sutton United goalkeeper Wayne Shaw has been fined £375 and suspended from all football activity for two months for breaching betting rules over “piegate.”‘
The Independent, 6th September 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Joey Barton, the controversial Burnley FC midfielder (and sometime BBC Question Time panellist), was in December 2016 charged by the FA with a breach of rule E8: betting. It was said that he had placed 1,260 bets on professional football matches over a ten-year period. He pleaded guilty to the alleged misconduct. An FA regulatory commission (the “Commission”) was convened to hear submissions and decide on sanction. Its decision, made on 26 April 2017, was to suspend Barton from all football-related activities for 18 months with immediate effect.’
Littleton Chambers, 31st July 2017
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘A former professional footballer has been spared jail after sexually assaulting a sleeping woman.’
BBC News, 15th August 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Premiership season may have begun but the transfer window rumbles on. We, mere supporters, have to put up with the unedifying spectacle of highly paid “want away” players requesting transfers, refusing to train, feigning injury, and generally malingering. The great Bill Shankly once said that players like these were a menace to society and that he would lock them up if he could. In these more liberal days, fans still ask why it is that a “want away” player’s contract cannot be enforced to oblige him to play. The answer is that English contract law has a rule against the compelled performance of personal services, by employees.’
Employment Blog, 15th August 2017
Source: employment11kbw.com
‘On 25 July 2017, an FA Appeal Board allowed the appeal of Premier League player, Joey Barton, against the “excessive” ban on him from all football for 18 months, imposed as a result of breaches of The FA’s betting rules.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 31st July 2017
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
‘An independent investigation has been launched into alleged “failings” by British Canoeing amid child grooming and sexual assault accusations against a senior coach.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st August 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Joe Perry has been given a three-month ban – suspended until May 2018 – for breaching rules on betting on matches.’
BBC News, 26th July 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The head of the review into historic sexual abuse in English football has appealed to abuse survivors to come forward and tell their stories.’
The Independent, 23rd July 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man who claimed thousands of pounds in disability benefits despite climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, winning a triathlon and competing at the Phoenix Winter Games, has been convicted of fraud.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 20th July 2017
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A High Court judge has refused the owners of Coventry City Football Club permission to seek judicial review in their latest state aid challenge over decisions taken by Coventry City Council.’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th July 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The families of the Hillsborough victims have hailed the “beginning of the end” in their 28-year struggle for justice following the decision to prosecute the match day police commander over 95 deaths.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘This paper is the second in a series to be published on the Sports Law Bulletin following presentations made at Blackstone Chambers’ Integrity in Sport – the Battleground seminar on 30th March 2017.’
Blackstone Chambers, 31st May 2017
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
‘The Football Association has issued lifetime bans to England fans for the first time after two supporters’ club members made Nazi gestures in Germany.’
BBC News, 6th June 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Fuller (Part 20 claimant) v Kitzing and another (Part 20 defendants) [2017] EWHC 810 (Ch)
‘The Part 20 claimant was freehold and long leasehold owner of a substantial property and some 30 acres of surrounding land. The Part 20 defendant was the owner of sporting rights over the Part 20 claimant’s land. The Part 20 claimant sought a declaration those rights did not authorise the Part 20 defendant preserve and rear game on his land because that went beyond any recognised profit or ancillary right, still less did the sporting rights authorise her to introduce poults (or young pheasants) onto his land. The court ordered the trial of a number of preliminary issues, including whether there was a legally recognised profit à prendre to preserve and rear game on another person’s land.’
WLR Daily, 27th March 2017
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The England and Wales Cricket Board has confirmed that it undertook a review of its child safeguarding procedures in the wake of the revelation that a child sex offender had worked at a children’s cricket association with the ECB’s written permission.’
The Guardian, 25th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The England and Wales Cricket Board’s child protection policies are likely to come under close scrutiny after it emerged a convicted child sex offender worked at a schools cricket association with written permission from the ECB – and also attended junior cricket festivals in the company of an ECB executive.’
The Guardian, 24th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘More than 250 potential suspects and 560 victims have now been identified by officers investigating child sex abuse within football in the UK, police say.’
BBC News, 19th April 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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