Contains essential advice on legal issues relating to the 2012 Olympics
This is a major textbook on Sports Law in the UK and consolidates guidance across all the major practice areas of interest to sports lawyers. Written by a team of acknowledged and acclaimed experts, this comprehensive work is essential reading for solicitors and barristers practising sports law, as well as Universities, governing bodies, sports agencies, clubs and commercial firms.
Practical insight from the field
With numerous practical insights from the frontline, this book is full of practice tips, precedent clauses, detailed explanations of key practical issues and step-by-step analysis. It covers:
- The bringing of challenges to the actions of sports regulatory bodies
- Defending anti-doping and other disciplinary charges
- How to create, exploit and defend from third party infringement the commercial rights to sporting properties, including the commercial programme around a sports event
Covers significant legal changes and developments
Fully updated, this second edition reflects the impact of a number of significant changes to the law and developments in case law since the last edition in 2002. In particular it has been revised to reflect:
- Bradley v. Jockey Club, EWHC, 2004
- Meca-Medina, ECJ 2006
- New revised World Anti-Doping Code, effective as of 1 January 2009
- Douglas v. Hello!, 2007
- The legislation for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
Even more new content
This new edition contains a number of new chapters covering key new content, including:
- A stand-alone chapter on the Court of Arbitration for Sport
- New chapters on key areas of regulatory concern: transfers, player-agents, child protection and sports governance
- A new stand-alone section on the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
No sports law specialist should be without this book
Reviews:
For the past decade or so, sports law has developed into a distinct area of law. It is, however, surprising that there are so few dedicated texts dealing with this fascinating and topical area of law. Sports: Law and Practice, edited by Adam Lewis and Jonathan Taylor, aims to provide a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible account of the relevant principles. To my mind, it achieves this aim with considerable ease and aplomb.
Whilst edited by two leading practitioners, Sport: Law and Practice also boasts an impressive list of contributors. Written in an engaging and accessible way, the text is divided into seven distinct parts: the constitutional structure of the sports sector; European Community law and sport; human rights and sport; issues for individual sportsmen and women; drug use in sport; the organisation of sports entities; the commercialisation of sports properties; and the 2012 Olympics. Each part is then subdivided into specific chapters. The editors should be commended for this approach because it lays out the material in a logical way which allows the relevant information to be quickly located.
Like the first edition, Sports: Law and Practice is a thoroughly researched and authoritative text. It has impressively detailed footnotes which are an excellent starting point for further research. It also impressively considers the leading sports law cases, together with some lesser known ones, and includes a number of excellent check-lists and precedents which readers can adapt or use as a basis for drafting. For example, in the section on sports grounds, there are a number of precedent clauses which the reader can built into their own commercial agreements.
Readers will be pleased that Sports: Law and Practice is, like the first edition, a wonderfully written and authoritative account of sport law and practice. The editors and contributors should be commended because its title explains exactly what the text is: a practical and accurate account of sport law for the busy practitioner. No practitioner should be without this text, nor anyone interested or advising on this complex, interesting and topical area of law.
Reviewed on 1 December 2008
Student Law Journal
"A positive feature of the text is that the use of extensive footnotes adds to the admirable coverage and understanding of the legal issues which are discussed. Additionally, the layout of the various chapters and sections enable the reader to research and identify these with ease."
