Sports Law

With his FIFA’s ethics committee coming down like a tonne of bricks on Mohamed Bin Hammam – the once powerful executive now banned for life from all football-related activity – Sepp Blatter would hope outsiders accept he is now delivering on his promises to get world football’s under-fire governing body back on track. But banning […]

In our current spring newsletter we feature an article discussing the difficulties consumers face when attempting to cancel a gym membership part way through their gym contract. The reasons for cancellation of a gym membership can be varied. However the situation consumers face when attempting to cancel is always the same; namely that the membership […]

Did you see the article in the Independent on Sunday yesterday on this subject? It’s certainly worth a read if not. In short, as matters stand at the moment when a football club is declared insolvent the players, manager and (even more amazingly) other football clubs who are owed money by the insolvent club, stand […]

Football is known for being a physical, contact sport and injuries are common place however, many who regularly turn out for their Sunday League teams will have been astounded by the case of a player being jailed for six months as a result of a bad tackle – a legal first and for some a […]