Challenging Sports Governing Bodies de Adam Lewis KC

Challenging Sports Governing Bodies

Adam Lewis KC

Jonathan Taylor KC

Nick De Marco KC

James Segan

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iul 2016

Challenging Sports Governing Bodies covers the decision to challenge the actions of a sports governing body and considers the causes of action that form a basis for them. This title refers to this important area of practice that more company, commercial and regulatory practitioners are venturing in to. The text is encyclopaedic in nature and practice based providing a practical analysis of key issues for practitioners. Footnotes are used to identify the leading cases for propositions in the main text and to help with finding similar and relevant cases. To ensure this work is comprehensive in its subject matter there is a short section on Remedies focusing on internal appeal routes and arbitration.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Sports Law online service.

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Notă biografică

Adam Lewis KC is a barrister specialising in public law, EC law and sports law at Blackstone Chambers, London. He regularly advises national and international sports governing bodies, clubs, individual players and commercial partners, and appears on their behalf before the courts and regulatory authorities.Jonathan Taylor, a partner and head of the Sport Group at Bird & Bird, has practised exclusively in the sports sector for 20 years, advising a broad range of clients nationally and internationally on commercial matters, contentious matters, and regulatory and disciplinary issues across all major sports.Nick De Marco, barrister at Blackstone Chambers, is recognised as a leading junior across all areas of sports law. He has advised and acted for sports governing bodies, clubs and athletes in commercial claims, disciplinary, doping and anti-corruption cases, claims concerning footballers' and agents' contracts, sports' sponsorship cases, and employment claims. He acted for the ECB against cricketer Danish Kaneria in the spot fixing cases.James Segan, barrister at Blackstone Chambers, is recognised as a leading junior in a total of seven practice areas, including sports law. He has acted in a number of leading disciplinary, doping and commercial cases in the sporting sector, including the RFU v Viagogo litigation which was decided by the UK Supreme Court.

Cuprins

1 Introduction 2 The Actions of Sports Governing Bodies 3 Identification of Cause of Action and Respondent 4 Choice of Forum for the Challenge 5 Public or Private? 6 The Varying Degrees of Review 7 Grounds for Review Arising Out Of Control Of The Sport 8 Contract 9 Tort 10 Common Law Restraint of Trade 11 EU And Domestic Competition Law 12 The EU Free Movement Rules 13 Remedies 14 Procedural Aspects

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This slim volume is a welcome addition to the literature on Sports Law and provides all those with a professional involvement and interest in sport with a helpful road map on the circumstances and the grounds on which and how and where to mount such challenges...a welcome Book on a most important subject, which is likely to challenge the international sporting community and their administrators and legal advisers for many years to come!