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What's In A Name?

Posted on November 11, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 341 1948 16 3 2392 11.1282 0 0 0 Newcastle United have recently angered fans by deciding to replace the historic name of St James'...


Sports opposed to London 2012 Wembley Arena switch

Posted on November 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 102 493 9 2 718 11.1282 0 0 0 The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) faces a battle to gain approval for...


European Handball Federation contests German online betting advertising fines

Posted on November 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 72 347 6 1 506 11.1282 0 0 0 The European Handball Federation (EHF) is contesting fines levied by two German states for displaying...


FIFA uses MRI to ban over-age players

Posted on November 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 70 338 6 1 492 11.1282 0 0 0 FIFA will ban players that fail its Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) wrist scans at the Under-17...


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Player Contracts: New FIFA Regulations on the transfer of minors

Posted on November 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 106 510 9 2 743 11.1282 0 0 0 FIFA's ban on Chelsea conducting player transfers has highlighted a change in FIFA Regulations for the...


Arbitration: Olympic athlete consent to CAS arbitration

Posted on November 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 88 425 8 2 619 11.1282 0 0 0 Athletes who wish to participate in the Olympic Games must agree to submit any dispute to the Court...


Doping: Sample collection: failure to submit to doping control

Posted on November 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 107 517 9 2 753 11.1282 0 0 0 Under World Anti-Doping Agency rules, failure to submit to sample collection for doping control purposes...


FAPL Rules: New ownership and 'home grown' Premier League rules

Posted on November 06, 2009
Following a Department for Culture, Media and Sport consultation on sport's relationship with money, the Football Association Premier League (FAPL) passed new regulations governing club ownership and 'home grown' players. Daniel Geey and Joe Ward,...


South Africa: Ambush marketing: sanctions and state legislation

Posted on November 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 85 412 7 2 600 11.1282 0 0 0 Corporations pay millions to exclusively sponsor events such as the FIFA 2010 World Cup South Africa,...


FIFA's Early Warning System to monitor betting for IOC

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 87 501 4 1 615 11.1282 0 0 0 FIFA's Early Warning System GmbH (EWS) will monitor betting on Olympic events for the International...


Caster Semenya's lawyers send information request to the IAAF

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 65 372 3 1 456 11.1282 0 0 0 Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, which is providing advice to Caster Semenya on her human rights and...


CPA to poll cyclists after UCI bans radios

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 53 305 2 1 374 11.1282 0 0 0 The Cyclistes Professionnels Associ s (CPA) is to poll its members on whether they support the Union...


South Africa: Ambush marketing: sanctions and state legislation

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 109 623 5 1 765 11.1282 0 0 0 Corporations pay millions to exclusively sponsor events such as the FIFA 2010 World Cup South Africa,...


Comment: The 'right to offer bets': gambling industry's view

Posted on October 19, 2009
  Normal 0 0 1 95 543 4 1 666 11.1282 0 0 0 France's proposed creation of a 'right to offer bets', which sporting organisations would...


Television: FAPL v YouTube: protecting sports broadcasts in the US

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 99 568 4 1 697 11.1282 0 0 0 The Football Association Premier League's claim against YouTube highlighted that sports broadcasters must either...


Player Contracts: ECJ rules on French protections for training clubs

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 124 712 5 1 874 11.1282 0 0 0 The European Court of Justice (ECJ) decides that although French rules entitling clubs to require...


US: Antitrust law and sport: American Needle v NFL

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 115 661 5 1 811 11.1282 0 0 0 American Needle is a sportswear manufacturer that challenged the National Football League's (NFL)...


Gender Testing: The Caster Semenya case: gender verification in sport

Posted on October 19, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 108 621 5 1 762 11.1282 0 0 0 The Caster Semenya case highlighted that the rules of the International Association of Athletics Federations...


Weekly Twitter Update: October 1-11

Posted on October 19, 2009
France has amended its new gambling laws to ban all betting exchanges, reports The Guardian @ http://bit.ly/KqUxx     NCAA will pay $750k to Andrew Oliver, who was ruled ineligible as he was represented by lawyer in talks...


WSLR Event Attracts International Media Coverage

Posted on September 29, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 329 1876 15 3 2303 11.1282 0 0 0 Peter Limacher, UEFA's Head of Disciplinary Services, revealed that UEFA is currently investigating...


Weekly Twitter Update: September 14-18

Posted on September 19, 2009
Athletics South Africa has launched an inquiry into the Caster Semenya affair. Press release @ http://bit.ly/qw7vu     Nigeria rejects FIFA-approved MRI bone scans to verify player ages for U17 World Cup. BBC report @ http://bit...


DCMS & Professional Players Federation To Speak At WSLR Event

Posted on September 17, 2009
  Normal 0 0 1 204 1063 17 2 1430 11.1282 0 0 0 The UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Professional Players Federation...


Weekly Twitter Update: September 7-11

Posted on September 12, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite. http://bit.ly/1i8AC6. The IAAF will release test results.     Ars ne Wenger: sensible comments on why FIFA/UEFA's plan to ban under-18 transfers...


FIFA considers dropping agent licence requirement

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 113 649 5 1 797 11.1282 0 0 0 FIFA is considering abandoning its requirement that football clubs should only conduct player transfers...


Premier Rugby: opposition doctor to be allowed to inspect blood injuries

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 58 334 2 1 410 11.1282 0 0 0 Premier Rugby, the body which administers rugby union's Guinness Premiership competition, is to vote...


UEFA, BHA & Betfair to speak at WSLR briefing

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 52 297 2 1 364 11.1282 0 0 0 UEFA, the British Horseracing Association (BHA), Betfair and the Central Council for Physical Recreation...


Player Contracts: Mutu: contract breaches for misconduct & compensation

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 73 419 3 1 514 11.1282 0 0 0 The Court of Arbitration for Sport recently dismissed an appeal from Adrian Mutu against a FIFA decision...


Television: UK review of listed events reserved for free-to-air TV

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 92 526 4 1 645 11.1282 0 0 0 The UK government is considering changing legislation that preserves certain sporting events for free-to-air...


Fan Behaviour: Sporting organisations' liability for spectator behaviour

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 106 607 5 1 745 11.1282 0 0 0 There have recently been a number of incidents where the safety of athletes have been compromised...


South Africa: Ambush marketing: national preventative legislation

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 85 486 4 1 596 11.1282 0 0 0 Corporations pay millions to exclusively sponsor events such as the FIFA 2010 World Cup South Africa,...


US: Amateur sport: image rights litigation and potential impact

Posted on September 09, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 65 373 3 1 458 11.1282 0 0 0 A number of cases regarding the use of the use of amateur athletes' images in computer games are currently...


Weekly Twitter Update

Posted on September 06, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 328 1871 15 3 2297 11.1282 0 0 0 UK Sport welcomes the Home Office's addition of 24 anabolic steroids and 2 growth hormones to the...


Weekly Twitter Update

Posted on September 01, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 333 1900 15 3 2333 11.1282 0 0 0 FIFA uses the 4th report from the PFPO - which reports fewer club-trained players - to support its...


CAS Publishes Beijing 2008 Decisions

Posted on August 26, 2009
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), based in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just published (July, 2009) a Digest of the Awards made by its Ad Hoc Division (AHD) - a kind of circuit tribunal of the CAS - during the  Beijing Olympic Games...


Weekly Twitter Update

Posted on August 25, 2009
Normal 0 0 1 273 1560 13 3 1915 11.1282 0 0 0 Premier Rugby is to bring in new injury checks following the discovery that Harlequins faked a blood...


Weekly Twitter Update

Posted on August 15, 2009
London 2012 has appointed that London Marathon to work on the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic marathons. http://tinyurl.com/on5lo2The IOC has taken action against five equestrian riders for doping of horses at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. http://tinyurl.com/odrfaaSheikh...


Weekly Twitter Update

Posted on August 07, 2009
Bath rugby union players have set up a five-man group designed to self-police against further drug taking. http://tinyurl.com/nj28xpEnglish rugby union players will become the first in the world to be tested for social drugs out of competition. http://tinyurl...


FINA bans bodysuits from 2010 but records to stand

Posted on August 04, 2009
The F d ration Internationale de Natation (FINA) has amended its rules to ban all bodysuits from swimming from 2010, after world records were broken using new generation non-permeable swimsuits which critics allege provide an unfair advantage by...


Tennis players seek compensation for ATP's suspension for online gambling

Posted on August 04, 2009
Five tennis players are seeking compensation from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and online gambling operator Interwetten, alleging that their suspension for online gambling was engineered to satisfy public and media concerns over...


FAPL can claim US damages for live broadcasts

Posted on August 04, 2009
The Football Association Premier League (FAPL) has yet to decide whether it will pursue statutory damages, after it won the right to claim them from YouTube for broadcasting its live games. In a 7 July ruling, a US district court said that FAPL...


Opinion: EHFA and IHRSA: promoting health through fitness

Posted on August 04, 2009
Traditionally, the health and fitness industry has looked to the United States for its leadership. Based in Boston, USA, the International Health and Racquet Sportsclub Association1 (IHRSA) has led the industry for over 25 years with its programme...


Formula One: The legal status of Formula One's proposed budget cap

Posted on August 04, 2009
Formula One has proposed a cap of 40 million on team budgets from 2010, a move initially opposed by its teams. Elizabeth Mehdevy, a Partner with Field Seymour Parkes, examines the economic reasons for the cap, the damage that the threat of a breakaway...


Player Contracts: Greek FA accepts nationality restrictions violate EU law

Posted on August 04, 2009
The Hellenic Football Federation has accepted an argument raised before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that a rule requiring six players in second division squads to be eligible for the national team contravenes EU law. Dr. Gregory Ioannidis,...


Doping: Drug testing under club employment contracts

Posted on August 04, 2009
England's Rugby Football Union (RFU) told four former Bath players to appear before an RFU disciplinary panel, where they will be charged with 'conduct prejudicial to the interests of the game', following allegations that they took prohibited substances...


Poland: Euro 2012: legal preparations for hosting

Posted on August 04, 2009
 Poland has introduced a number of legislative changes designed to prepare the country for its joint hosting of Euro 2012 with Ukraine. Piotr Majer, a Senior Associate with Laszczuk and Partners, examines the special legal status of projects,...


Ticketing: WIPO decision: use of sport trademarks to sell tickets

Posted on August 04, 2009
A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel rules that Official Tickets' use of club trademarks in connection with 'official tickets' in domains creates a likelihood of confusion that the websites are authorised by the clubs. Rohan Massey,...


Comment: Ofcom pay-TV consultation: regulating pay-TV football

Posted on August 04, 2009
Ofcom intends to require BSkyB to wholesale pay-TV content at regulated prices to all. Stephen Hornsby, a Partner with Davenport Lyons, examines the plans, the Premier League's objection that Ofcom's proposal would undermine competition for its...


Sports Law Round Up: Player Contracts

Posted on June 19, 2009
The news story that most intrigued me this week was that Manchester United has implemented a policy that the club will not sign players over 26 years of age, in a move apparently designed to generate value for the club at the end of a five or six year...


FIFA, CAS, FIFPro & Premier League To Address WSLR Briefing

Posted on June 10, 2009
FIFA, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the FA Premier League, FIFPro and more will address World Sports Law Report's second Player Issues: Contracts & Regulations full-day briefing, which will be hosted at the London offices of Hammonds...


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...


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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