“Football fans who abuse players or fellow supporters online have been warned they could face prosecution, as lawyers and police unveiled a new policy for tackling hooliganism.”
The Guardian, 23rd August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A High Court judge has quashed planning permission for a golf course that had been marked for an ecologically sensitive Green Belt location despite there already being nearly 200 courses within 20 miles of the site.”
The Independent, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“In the past it seems that the best way for a player to persuade a club to sell him was to sulk, feign injury or stir up the media (on the BBC Sport website Robbie Savage has listed a few more tactics he had used, or seen others use). More recently we have seen the advent of clauses in player contracts which are triggered by offers in excess of a particular sum. These give rise to a number of interesting issues.”
Littleton Chambers, 15th August 2013
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
“With the Government’s amendment to the Enterprise Bill 2013 due to abolish strict liability in employers’ claims, it seems that certain Courts were ahead of the pack in seeking to mitigate what they saw as the potentially unfair consequence of construing the Regulations too strictly against quasi-employers.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 9th August 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Where solicitors had acted for a company in connection with its opposition to a winding up petition but had ceased to act for the company by the time the company went into out of court administration, the court had no power under the Insolvency Rules 1986 or under the inherent jurisdiction of the court to direct that fees which the company owed to the solicitors were an expense of the administration.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Appeal Panel of the Cricket Discipline Commissions of the ECB has published its decision upholding the lifetime ban on former Pakistan international spin bowler, Danish Kaneria, from any involvement in the playing, organisation or administration of cricket under the jurisdiction of the ECB. The Pakistan Cricket Board has acknowledged the decision, and so the impact of the suspension is that Kaneria will remain banned for life from involvement in professional cricket.”
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 19th July 2013
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
“In The Football Association Premier League Ltd v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and Others [2013] EWHC 2058 (Ch) (16 July 2013) Mr. Justice Arnold granted an injunction under s.97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 against the top 6 internet service providers in the UK to block access to the First Row Sports website. As the judge had already made similar orders against the same defendants in Newzbin2 (see “Injunctions against ISPs” 6 Nov 26), Dramatico (‘Injunctions against ISPs Part III: Dramatico Entertainment Ltd and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. and Others’) and EMI (‘Injunctions against ISPs Part V: EMI Records Ltd and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and Others’ 5 March 2013) they did not defend the application but instead agreed the terms of the order with the Premier League. However, as the judge acknowledged at paragraph [7] of his judgment, that did not absolve the Court of the responsibility of determining whether the orders sought were justified.”
NIPC Law, 20th July 2013
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
“A rugby league star sacked by his club after a photo of a team-mate’s bottom was posted on his Twitter account was unlawfully dismissed, a judge ruled.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Premier League has won a court order forcing UK internet service providers to block a popular football streaming website.”
BBC News, 17th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Papiss Cisse’s dispute with Newcastle United Football Club about wearing the official shirt sponsor’s logo raises some important questions for sports lawyers.”
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 15th July 2013
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
“The police watchdog has identified a further 55 police statements that it believes were amended in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fresh inquests into the deaths of the 96 Hillsborough victims will be held before a jury, a coroner has confirmed.”
BBC News, 5th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Sports regulatory bodies and sports clubs must generally obtain enhanced disclosure of coaches and other persons who are responsible for supervising and working with children (now called Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Checks). They often have to take action based on that information, and always have to assess the relevance and importance of that information. A number of cases relating to enhanced disclosure have now been decided by the Administrative Court and a body of law is developing which will help to inform sporting bodies about how to treat such information.”
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 5th June 2013
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
“A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain’s worst football disaster.
Never-before-broadcast footage of the FA Cup semi-final in which 96 Liverpool fans died reveals a catastrophic failure by the emergency services, how lives might have been saved and how subsequent inquiries were misled.
And a former home secretary and former police chiefs are put on the spot about why a succession of official investigations left the truth hidden for a generation.”
BBC Panorama, 23rd May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Commercial Court has ruled that Pakistani international bowler, Danish Kaneria’s appeal proceedings against his life time ban for involvement in spot-fixing under the ECB’s Disciplinary Regulations are an “arbitration” for the purposes of the Arbitration Act 1996. The decision is a momentous one for sports’ lawyers and governing bodies, not least in terms of the Court’s supervisory role over sporting bodies’ disciplinary procedures and the ability to rely on a Court to entertain appeals from, and make ancillary orders in support of, those processes.”
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 13th May 2013
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
“The tackle which goes wrong, the tendon which snaps, the heart condition which suddenly rears its head; few things are dreaded by professional sportspeople and their clubs as much as a career threatening injury or illness. Many put worry at the back of their minds by the thought that they have ‘insurance.'”
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Littleton Chambers, 9th May 2013
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
“Lord Justice Goldring says hearing should be held near where bereaved families live, but not too close to Liverpool.”
The Guardian, 2nd May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Homophobic statements made by a person perceived as playing a leading role in a football club but who did not have legal capacity to bind it in recruitment matters were capable of constituting ‘facts from which it may be presumed that there has been … discrimination’ pursuant to articles 2(2) and 10(1) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ 2000 L303, p16).”
WLR Daily, 25th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Police officers on duty at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough football ground when 96 Liverpool supporters died in 1989 will refuse to give evidence to the new inquest into the disaster, their barristers have said at a pre-inquest hearing.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Godolphin trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni has been banned from racing for eight years
after doping horses at one of the world’s leading racing operations.”
BBC News, 25th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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