Pippa is a barrister at 4 New Square Chambers and has a broad commercial practice, encompassing general commercial disputes, professional liability and disciplinary matters, sports and costs work. Her practice encompasses disputes proceeding both by way of litigation and arbitration. She also sits as an arbitrator in sports disputes.

Pippa has a sizeable sports law practice which includes acting for athletes, coaches and governing bodies. She has experience of cases across the sports law spectrum, including matters involving selection, doping, funding, disciplinary matters, governance and contracts.

She regularly appears before tribunals acting for clients in contentious matters that proceed to hearing. In addition, she has experience of advising on non-contentious issues and of drafting in a sports law context.

She has been appointed to sit as an Arbitrator by Sports Resolutions and has since been regularly appointed as arbitrator to various disputes, including those proceeding under Rule K.

Pippa was nominated for Sports Law Junior of the Year at the 2023 Legal 500 Awards.

Featured Sports Law cases

• Acting for Victoria Ohuruogu in securing full dismissal of charge brought by UKAD relating to prohibited association with a banned individual following a contested hearing. VO went on to win a bronze medal in the 4x400m at Paris 2024.
• Acting for Derbyshire Cricketer, Tom Wood, in the first anti-doping case brought by the English Cricket Board for over a decade. A substantially reduced ban relating to Mr Wood’s use of his asthma inhaler was achieved. The case raised issues relating to Therapeutic Use Exemptions.
• Acting for the Rugby Football Union in prosecuting former Premiership Winner Chris Mayor for Use, Possession and Trafficking of Human Growth Hormone (and associated Attempted offences).
• Acting for the ITF in prosecuting a top-100 player for the presence of a banned steroid. The case is on appeal to CAS.
• Acting for world title holding boxer in dispute with promoter regarding unpaid purses and rematch clauses.
• Acting for Premiership football club in relation to training ground incident.
• Acting for an international-level athlete appealing a sanction for a positive test for furosemide to CAS.
• Acting for a former Olympian charged with evading, refusing or failing to provide a sample.  Following a two-day hearing, the charges were dismissed and the athlete was exonerated.
• Advising in relation to a footballer’s challenge to his conviction for evading provision of a sample.
• Representing a Premiership Footballer charged with a Rule E1 offence before an FA Disciplinary Panel.
• Representing a youth football charged with using racially abusive language before an FA Disciplinary Panel. The charges were dismissed.
• Acting and appearing successfully for a manager in a dispute both before the British Boxing Board of Control and the Appeal Stewards of the BBBofC in relation to the poaching of boxers from his stable.
• Acting (led by Dan Saoul KC) in UKAD v Buttifant, a case which raised issues regarding intention and contamination and which is now a leading case on intention.
• Acting for a tennis player charged by the ITF with refusing or failing to provide a sample: ITF v Mak.
• Acting in an FA Rule K arbitration for a respondent football club.
• Advising and acting for NGBs on various legal issues including selection disputes, governance issues, gambling and funding.