Football ‘spot-fixing’ case dropped – BBC News
‘The case against 13 footballers investigated over alleged spot-fixing has been dropped due to “insufficient evidence”, the CPS has said.’
BBC News, 15th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: sport
49 year-old Rugby player’s ban doubled to 20 years for assaulting referee’ – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
On 29 September 2014 the RFU Appeal Panel, chaired by Sir James Dingemans, handed down judgment in RFU v Barry Lockwood.
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 12th January 2015
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
Ched Evans: the legal issues – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘The “innocent man wrongly imprisoned who fights a valiant struggle to secure his freedom” is a long used trope in our culture. The hero is normally a sympathetic figure, heroically taking on the establishment.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 7th January 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Ched Evans: Attorney general’s office probe into website – BBC News
‘The attorney general’s office is considering whether a website supporting convicted rapist Ched Evans breached contempt of court laws.’
BBC News, 6th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The legal issues in the Ched Evans case – BBC News
‘Footballer Ched Evans is still looking for a new club after being released from prison last October, having served half of a five-year sentence for the rape of a 19-year-old woman in a hotel in May 2011.’
BBC News, 6th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ministry of Justice steps in to prevent Ched Evans from playing abroad – The Guardian
‘Attempts by Ched Evans to resurrect his football career were quashed last night after the British government stepped in to prevent the convicted rapist plying his trade overseas.’
The Guardian, 3rd January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Cellino and Leeds United in Troubled Waters – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘The Football League finally got their man. But is it too late? Will Massimo Cellino and Leeds United yet sail off into the clear blue sea?’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 3rd December 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
Ched Evans: Release, Retribution and Rehabilitation – Littleton Chambers
‘In April 2012 Ched Evans, the former Wales and Sheffield United striker, was convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in Rhyl, Denbighshire. It is a shocking and a wholly unacceptable crime for him to have committed.’
Littleton Chambers, 1st December 2014
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
Of cricket balls and Velux windows – a victory for Lord Denning and the common law right to hit a good six – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Flying cricket balls and noisy motorbikes have a long history of testing the legal balance between the public interest in sport and the private interest in the peaceful enjoyment of land or the avoidance of injury.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 13th November 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
Powerboater injured in crash awarded £5.5m damages – Daily Telegraph
‘A talented young powerboater who suffered catastrophic head injuries when two boats collided during a race has been awarded £5.5 million High Court damages.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Street Tweet not so neat – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Football managers and coaches are not infrequently subjected to disciplinary sanctions by football regulatory bodies for speaking out about referees and such like. It is comparatively rarer for players to be sanctioned for expressing themselves, although this has now happened twice to QPR and sometime England midfielder and avid tweeter Rio Ferdinand.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 10th November 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
Footballer Ravel Morrison cleared of threatening to throw acid in his ex-girlfriend’s face – The Independent
‘The former Manchester United footballer Ravel Morrison has been cleared of allegations he harassed his former girlfriend including threatening to kill her and throw acid in her face.‘
The Independent, 10th November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
BSkyB sport channels can air on rival BT service, court says – BBC News
‘A UK court has ruled that pay TV broadcaster BSkyB must make its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels available on rival BT’s YouView service.’
BBC News, 5th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Fake Chelsea footballer Medi Abalimba jailed for posing as Gael Kakuta – The Independent
‘A failed footballer who enjoyed a champagne lifestyle by pretending to be a Chelsea player has been jailed for four years for a £163,000 fraud.’
The Independent, 22nd October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The End of the Licensed Football Agent? – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Earlier this year Football’s World governing body, FIFA, published its Regulations on Working with Intermediaries. The FIFA Regulations signal a dramatic de-regulation of one of the most controversial and lucrative business activities in football: agency.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 21st October 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
They don’t shoot horse riders, do they? – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Afficionados of Sherlock Holmes will recall “The Adventure of Silver Blaze”, a tale of horse nobbling and dark deeds amidst the turf fanciers of late Victorian England. “Silver Blaze” (incidentally the only Holmes story to feature a deerstalker cap, and that only in an accompanying illustration) is a story in which the question of custody of the horse is all important, and is best known for the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. The curious incident is that the dog did nothing (it had been doped, using curried mutton – not a frequently encountered doping agent in modern sporting life) , and nothing is also what the rider of the horse did in Turner v British Equestrian Federation (SR/0000120209, 1 August 2014). Nothing wrong, that is.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 25th September 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
Fair or foul: sport and the law – Henderson Chambers
‘The question is: how does one earn a living in sport? By skill? Hand-eye coordination? Fancy footwork? Fast reactions? By luck? By cheating – and getting away with it? Or none of these. As far as we are concerned, the living is earned in the law. The law by, with, to and from all aspects of sport because a legal principle from every page of every textbook will apply somewhere in the entire spectrum of sports activities on and off the field. Think of the law that applies to staff, betting,merchandising of team brands, the corrections of misdemeanours and their effects, ownership of buildings, copyright issues. If I just do a list, it will go on forever. I do not have “a little list.” Mine is endless and what I propose to do is to follow, if not the rules, then the pattern of sport by touching on a topic haphazardly then running back, in an intellectual sort of way, to the other side of the court before starting again on a different tack. There are so many sporting metaphors to mix.’
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Henderson Chambers, 8th July 2014
Source: www.hendersonchambers.co.uk
Lawrence and another v Fen Tigers Ltd and others (No 2) – WLR Daily
Lawrence and another v Fen Tigers Ltd and others (No 2) [2014] UKSC 46; [2014] WLR (D) 332
‘In order for the landlord to be liable for nuisance caused by the tenant of a property the circumstances had to be such that the landlord either (i) could be said to have authorised the nuisance by letting the property in question or (ii) had participated directly in the commission of the nuisance, and it was not enough that the landlord was aware of the nuisance but took no steps to prevent it.’
WLR Daily, 23rd July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Avoiding the clinch: judicial respect for the rules inherent to sport – Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘In a recent bout in the High Court, the specificity of sporting disputes once again came to the fore. In Bruce Baker v British Boxing Board of Control [2014] EWHC 2074 (QB), 25 June 2014, Sir David Eady was faced with the old chestnut of a request for a court to interfere with a national sporting body’s decision to sanction one of its participants. One interim application later, and the BBBC was still standing.’
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 1st July 2014
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
Businessmen and footballer jailed over match-fixing – BBC News
‘Two businessmen and a footballer convicted of plotting to fix the results of football matches have been jailed.’
BBC News, 20th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
