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Sports Lawyer in the Spotlight: Nick De Marco KC
Cricket, Sports, Football, Dispute Resolution , Motorsport, Articles, Regulation & Governance

Sports Lawyer in the Spotlight: Nick De Marco KC

For this edition of Sports Lawyer In The Spotlight, we interviewed Nick De Marco KC who is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers. He acts for international and domestic sports-gover…
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Sports, Football, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance

UEFA’s Multi-Club Ownership Rule Before CAS: Decisive Influence in the FC DAC 1904 and Crystal Palace Cases (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of a two-part article examining the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) strict application of UEFA's…
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Sports, Football, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance

UEFA’s Multi-Club Ownership Rule Before CAS: The 1 March Deadline and the Drogheda United Decision (Part 1)

The end of the 2024/25 football season brought challenges for several football clubs forming part of what are known as…
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Sports, Football, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance

FIFA's Two-Year Limitation Period Under Scrutiny: Lessons from Recent CAS Jurisprudence

This article discusses a recent award published by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case CAS 2024/A/11060 X. v…
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Sports, Football, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance

Indefinite provisional suspensions and competence under the FFAR: CAS Panel reinstates suspended agent licence in Tullio Tinti v FIFA

The latest case involving the FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR)[1] raises the question of how far can FIFA enforce…
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Basketball, Sports, Athlete Welfare, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance, Safeguarding

Safeguarding Complaints and Procedural Fairness: What Sports Bodies Can Learn from Tounkara v FIBA

In a previous article published by LawInSport in 2022[1], our colleague Richard Bush examined the serious allegations o…
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Baseball, Basketball, Anti-Corruption, Sports, Criminal, Dispute Resolution , Gambling, Articles, Regulation & Governance

Over/Under: The Prop Betting Risk to the Integrity of U.S. Sports

The major professional sports leagues in the United States have weathered emerging challenges over many generations.&nb…
Sports, Football, Articles, Regulation & Governance

From ‘Sweat’ To ‘Stats’: Governance Of Sports Wearables In India

“In God we trust, all others must bring data” The quote often attributed to American statistician W. Edwards Deming, s…
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Sports, Football, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance, Table Tennis

Different Roads, Different Destinations: Why the Table Tennis Russia Ban Failed Where FIFA and UEFA Succeeded

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered an unprecedented wave of sporting sanctions against Russian…
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Basketball, Sports, Dispute Resolution , Articles, Regulation & Governance

FIBA’s Approach to Club Succession And BAT Award Enforcement

This article discusses the International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) regulatory framework in relation to club succes…
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Sports, Football, Articles, Regulation & Governance, Tax Law

Taxing End-of-Contract Compensation in Spain: Courts vs Tax Authorities

In 2019, the Spanish Supreme Court recognised professional athletes' right to end-of-contract compensation under Articl…
Cricket, Sports, Football, Commercial, Articles, Regulation & Governance

Data Protection Revolution in India: Key Provisions of the 2025 Digital Data Protection Rules

India's rapidly expanding digital gaming and sports sector faces significant compliance challenges following the public…

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