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A guide to the legal due diligence process when buying a football club

Sales of football clubs, particularly Premier League clubs, is always headline news. Fans often get frustrated by the amount of time it takes to complete a sale process. For insta…

Doping in sport concept drugs medals and syringe

Anti-Doping, Sports, Blogs, Articles, Regulation & Governance, Mills & Reeve

WADA’s 2025 Prohibited List: Context and key changes

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced the release of its 2025 Prohibited List[1], which will come into effe…

Blackstone Chambers, Blogs, Football, Dispute Resolution , Articles

Why sports tribunals should embrace public hearings

As a barrister acting in sports disputes for over 20 years, I have long argued for greater transparency, fairness and t…

Cricket, Sports, Blogs, Contract, Dispute Resolution , Employment, Articles, Tax Law, Littleton Chambers

Part-time officials, full-time implications – Analysis of the HMRC v PGMOL cases

In September the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Profes…

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How sports can improve mental health support for elite athletes

A roundtable discussion at HealthAccord 2024, which took place earlier this year alongside the SportAccord conference i…

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How interactive entertainment is impacting the sports industry

The keynote conversation from SportAccord 2024 provided a fantastic insight into how interactive entertainment is impac…

A guide to rights protection at major sporting events: part 3 – be ready for surprises and maintain perspective

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A guide to rights protection at major sporting: Part 3- surprises & over enforcement

Part 1 and Part 2 of this three part guide introduced rights protection programmes and looked at the fir…

A guide to rights protection at major sporting events: part 2 – educate, monitor and enforce

A guide to rights protection at major sporting events: Part 2 - educate, monitor & enforce

This is part two of a three part guide which provides seven points on how to protect rights holders of today’s maj…

A guide to rights protection at major sporting events: part 1 – identify, prioritise and pre-empt risk

A guide to rights protection at major sporting events: Part 1 - identify rights & managing risk

This three part guide provides seven practical steps to consider when creating a rights protection programme for major…

Blogs, Football, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance, Littleton Chambers

‘Golden Mitigation’ in football: Lessons from the Nottingham Forest's Profitability & Sustainability Regulations Appeal decision

This article analyses the legal reasoning in the recent decision of an independent Appeal Board in Nottingham Forest Fo…

Anti-Doping, Sports, Blogs, Articles, Littleton Chambers

Draining the doping swamp: sanctioning an athlete’s entourage using the WADA Code

This article examines how an athlete’s entourage can be regulated and sanctioned in anti-doping cases. It seeks to…

Sports, Athlete Welfare, Blogs, Articles, Squire Patton Boggs

What steps can sports organisations take to protect officials & athletes from online abuse?

“We have gone from a vertical society to a horizontal society where everybody has an opinion about every decision you m…