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Sport: Law and Practice, 4th Edition

Sport: Law and Practice, 4th Edition

Author: Adam Lewis QC; Jonathan Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
ISBN: 9781526509260
Published In: March 2021
Format: Hardback , 2407 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Sport: Law and Practice consolidates guidance across all the major practice areas of interest to solicitors and barristers practising sports law, as well as Universities, governing bodies, sports agencies, clubs and commercial firms.

The new 4th Edition features updates to all the existing chapters with some restructuring to reflect modern practice, plus the addition of a number of new chapters, including:
- Data protection
- Public funding of sport
- Best practice in sports governance
- Effective sports regulation
- Eligibility
- Misconduct
- Investigations and enquiries
- Ticketing
- Exploiting sports data
- HMRC investigations, tax enquiries and disputes in the sports sector
- ESports
Part A. Governance of the Sports Sector
1. Self-governance by sports governing bodies
2. Forms of organisation of sports governing bodies
3. Government intervention in the sports sector
4. Data protection
5. Public funding of sport
6. Best practice is sports governance

Part B: Regulating Sport
1. Effective sports regulation: the basic principles
2. Eligibility
3. Selection
4. Misconduct
5. Doping
6. match-fixing and related integrity issues
7. Ownership and finances
8. Safeguarding

Part C: Enforcing the Rules
1. Investigations and enquiries
2. Disciplinary proceedings
3. Disciplinary proceedings relating to on-field offences
4. Other internal proceedings
5. The Court of Arbitration for Sport

Part D: Challenges to the Actions of Sports Governing Bodies
1. Actions of a sports governing body
2. Identification of causes of an action that form a basis for challenge
3. Choices of forum
4. Public or private?
5. Varying degree of review
6. Grounds for review arising out of control of sport
7. Contract
8. Tort
9. Restraint of trade
10. Competition law
11. Free movement
12. Human rights
13. Discrimination
14. Remedies
15. Procedural aspects
16. Arbitration in sport

Part E: Relations Between Clubs and Players/Managers
1. Player and manager contracts
2. Players' agents
3. Player transfers

Part F: Liability Arising out of Participation in Sport
1. Civil liability arising out of participation in sport
2. Criminal liability arising out of participation in sport

Part G: Capturing the Commercial Value of Sport
1. Proprietary rights in sports events/ambush marketing
2. Venues and events management
3.Ticketing
4. Broadcasting and new media
5. Sponsorship
6. Image rights
7. Merchandising and licensing
8. Hospitality
9. Exploiting sports data

Part H: Tax Issues in the Sports Sector
1. Taxation of sports organisations
2. Tax and financial planning for individual athletes
3. Tax treatment of image rights
4. HMRC investigations, tax enquiries and disputes in the sports sector

Part I: ESports

Appendices
“No self-respecting Sports Lawyer, therefore, should be without a copy of this fine Book!” –  Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw, International Sports Lawyer, Academic, Author, Global Sports Law and Taxation Reports (Review of previous edition)

“Sport: Law and Practice remains the most comprehensive text for UK sports law...I expect to see this excellent book on sports law practitioner shelves up and down the country” –  Kevin Carpenter, Solicitor, Sport, Media and Entertainment, Hill Dickinson LLP, Sport and Law Journal (Review of previous edition)

“This volume deserves a place not only in the libraries of law schools, universities, and law firms, but also in an easily accessible position on the shelves and desks of individual sports lawyers, solicitors, barristers, leaders of governing bodies, sports agencies, and clubs, and in the libraries of commercial actors invested in sports, around the world...I must give this volume two thumbs up, way up” –  Jeffrey Benz, Law in Sport (Review of previous edition)