The Sports Lawyer
January 27th, 2012
THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the controversial BOA by-law hearing.
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By Andrew Nixon
28 January 2012
The controversial British Olympic Association by-law that imposes lifetime Olympic bans on athletes who have been suspended for six months or more will come before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 12 March 2012.
The hearing has been listed following the determination by...
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November 11th, 2011
THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the risks associated with social media in sport.
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By Andrew Nixon
11 November 2011
Gloucester centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu (pictured below) has been banned for three weeks by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) disciplinary panel chaired by David White in Bristol on Monday.
The sanction was imposed following comments towards Saracens fly-half, Owen Farrell, and as a result the...
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November 7th, 2011
THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the issue of corruption in sport.
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By Andrew Nixon
7 November 2011
Earlier this year, the International Cricket Council (the ICC) banned three Pakistani cricketers (Mohammad Amir, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif) following allegations that they had taken steps to fix certain aspects (in particular relating to the bowling of no balls) of the Lord's Test...
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November 3rd, 2011
THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the FC Sion appeal against UEFA.
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By Andrew Nixon
1 November 2011
Swiss team FC Sion has been told that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear its appeal against UEFA's decision to replace the club in this year's Europa Cup with Celtic on 24 November. UEFA reached its ruling because FC Sion fielded...
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October 4th, 2011
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THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses todays judgment by the European Court of Justice on showing live Premier League matches via a foreign satellite decoder.
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By Andrew Nixon
4 October 2011
Portsmouth pub landlady Karen Murphy has today won a stage of her legal case before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the right to show Premier League games in her pub...
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