Sports Law Second edition by Mark James

Sports Law
Second edition
by Mark James

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Chapter 02
Chapter 03

    Chapter 04
    Chapter 05
  Chapter 06
Chapter 08
Chapter 10

Chapter 11
Chapter 13

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General Interest
Chapter 1: What is Sports Law?
Chapter 2: Challenging governing bodies in English Law
Chapter 3: Challenging governing bodies before the Court of Arbitration for Sport
Chapter 4: Liability for Injuries Caused by Other Participants
Chapter 5: Liability for Injuries Caused by Non-participants
Chapter 6: Sports participation and the Criminal Law
Chapter 7: The Legality of Fighting Sports
Chapter 8: Liability for Dangerous Premises and Dangerous Events
Chapter 9: Stadium Disasters and Spectator Safety
Chapter 10: Crowd Disorder and Football Hooliganism
Chapter 11: Regulating Sporting Relationships in English Law
Chapter 12: Regulating Sporting Relationships in EU Law
Chapter 13: The Fan as Consumer and the Commercial Exploitation of Sport
Chapter 14: Olympic Law and Sporting Mega-events

General Interest

News & information

Court of Arbitration for Sport – news and judgments:
http://www.tas-cas.org/news
Department for Culture, Media and Sport – UK government information on sport:
https://www.gov.uk/government/topics/sports-and-leisure
European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture (Sport Unit) – information on the role of the EU and the development of its competence in respect of sport:
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/index_en.htm

Journals & online resources

Blackstone Chambers sports law resources – case reports and analysis from the leading sports law chambers:
http://www.blackstonechambers.com/sector_expertise/sport.html
Entertainment and Sports Law Journal – the leading refereed specialist journal in this area of the law:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/
Football Law – information and resources on football law from Daniel Geey of Field Fisher Waterhouse solicitors:
http://www.danielgeey.com/
Law In Sport – expert commentary and analysis on sports law issues:
http://www.lawinsport.com/
Sport and EU Review – specialist refereed journal of the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union:
http://www.sportandeu.com/sporteu-review/

Twitter feeds

@prof_mark_james
@Sportslaw_Asser – Asser Institute’s sports law feed
@BLsportsociety – British Library’s sports resources
@SportAndEU – information from the Sport & EU association
@ESLJournal – Entertainment & Sports Law Journal
@sport_law – World Sports Law Reports
@sportslaw_uk – sports law news
@LawInSport – Law In Sport
@eusportslaw – Centre for Sports Law Research, Edge Hill University
@sportslawchat – monthly discussions on sports law topics

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Chapter 1: What is sports law?

Legislation

Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (The Lisbon Treaty):
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:0001:01:EN:HTML

Articles

Foster, ‘Is there a Global Sports Law?’ (2003) 2(1) Entertainment and Sports Law Journal:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/issues/volume2/number1/foster.pdf
Special Issue on Sports Law Resources, 12(2) (2012) Legal Information Management:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2010&jid=LIM&volumeId=12&issueId=02&iid=8607009

Resources

Council of Europe – information on its activities and Conventions relating to sport:
http://www.coe.int/T/dg4/Sport/Default_en.asp
Council of Europe’s Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport:
http://www.coe.int/t/DG4/EPAS/default_en.asp
European Commission – Directorate General for Competition:
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/sports/overview_en.html
European Commission – Directorate General for Education and Culture (Sport Unit):
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/index_en.htm
Office of Fair Trading:
http://www.oft.gov.uk/
Sports Resolutions UK and the National Anti-Doping Panel:
http://www.sportresolutions.co.uk/
UK Sport:
http://www.uksport.gov.uk/
World Anti-Doping Agency:
http://www.wada-ama.org/en/

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Chapter 2: Challenging governing bodies in English law

Articles

Anderson, ‘Keeping sports out of the courts: the use of alternative dispute resolution in Irish sport’ (2010) 76(4) Arbitration 647
Ellson and Lohn, ‘Whose rules are we playing by?’ (2005) 3(2) Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, online:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/issues/volume3/number2/ellson_lohn
Proctor, ‘Dispute resolution in sport: the role of Sport Resolutions (UK)’ [2010] 1 International Sports Law Review 3

Hearings

RFU v Callum Jennings, Part 1 - 10 May 2010:
http://www.rfu.com/TheGame/Discipline/Judgements/Judgements2009-2010/~/media/Files/2009/Discipline/2009-2010/jennings%20%20judgementintermim%20decisionpart1.ashx
Part 2 - 14 July 2010:
http://www.rfu.com/TheGame/Discipline/Judgements/Judgements2009-2010/~/media/Files/2009/Discipline/2009-2010/jenningswhitehavenappealfinaljudgmentpart2jul10.ashx

Resources

History of the British Darts Organisation:
http://www.bdodarts.com/about.aspx
History of the Professional Darts Corporation:
http://www.pdc.tv/history
History of the Rugby Football League:
http://www.therfl.co.uk/history_and_heritage
Supporters Direct/Substance, ‘The Social Value of Football’:
http://www.substance.coop/past_projects/supporters_direct

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Chapter 3: Challenging governing bodies before the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Articles

Amos, ‘Inadvertent doping and the WADA Code’ (2008) 19(1) Bond Law Review article 1
Foster, ‘Lex sportiva and lex ludica: the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s jurisprudence’ (2004) 3(2) Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, online:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/issues/volume3/number2/foster/
Vromans, ‘Wickmayer and Malisse v Vlaamse Gemeenschap: Case No.09/1747/c of December 14, 2009’ [2010] 2 International Sports Law Review 44

Resources

Court of Arbitration for Sport (cases):
http://www.tas-cas.org/recent-decision
EU Commission’s sport portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/index_en.htm
FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players 2012:
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/administration/01/95/83/85//regulationsstatusandtransfer_e.pdf
World Anti-Doping Code:
http://www.wada-ama.org/rtecontent/document/code_v2009_En.pdf

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Chapter 4: Liability for injuries caused by other participants

Resources

Federation International de Ski, 10 Rules for Conduct:
http://www.fis-ski.com/data/document/10-fis-rules-for-conduct.pdf
British Horseracing Board, Rules of Racing (interference (B)53-55):
http://rules.britishhorseracing.com/Home

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Chapter 5: Liability for injuries caused by non-participants

Articles

Limb, ‘Between a rock and a court case – tortious liability in adventure sports cases’ [2013] 1 JPIL 7-18

Hearings

General Medical Council, Fitness to Practise Panel, Dr Wendy Chapman (Bloodgate team doctor):
http://webcache.gmc-uk.org/minutesfiles/Chapman%203171037%20PUBLISHABLE%20Minutes%20Sept2010.doc
Health Professions Council, Conduct and Competence Committee, Stephen Brennan (Bloodgate team physiotherapist):
http://www.hpc-uk.org/complaints/hearings/archive/index.asp?id=1512

Resources

General Medical Council, Confidentiality: protecting and providing information:
http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/current/library/confidentiality.asp
International Rugby Board, Laws of the Game of Rugby Union, in particular Law 20 as it applies to scrummaging:
http://www.irblaws.com/index.php?language=EN
NFL Concussion litigation:
http://nflconcussionlitigation.com/
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopy:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/03/sports/images-of-brain-injuries-in-athletes.html
Overview of the legal and evidential issues:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324281004578356463344216762.html#printMode
Coroner finds fatal stroke caused by heading football:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289525/Clot-caused-football-Talented-football-striker-27-died-suffering-fatal-stroke-caused-headers.html

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Chapter 6: Sports participation and the criminal law

Resources – criminal law

Crown Prosecution Service, Offences Against the Person, Incorporating the Charging Standard:
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/offences_against_the_person/
Crown Prosecution Service, Public Order Offences, Incorporating the Charging Standard:
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/public_order_offences/

Resources - child protection

Child Protection in Sport Unit, Standards for Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport:
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/cpsu/Resources/Publications/StandardsForSafeguardingPDF_wdf60707.pdf
DCMS, Helping keep your child safe in sport:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/safeinsport.pdf

Report

UNICEF/Innocenti Research Centre, ‘Protecting Children from Violence in Sport: a review with a focus on industrialised countries’:
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/violence_in_sport.pdf

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Chapter 7: The legality of fighting sports

Articles

Bettinson and Tristram, The National Sporting Club past and present, (1902, Sands and Co) available at:
http://openlibrary.org/details/nationalsportin00trisgoog
Buse, ‘No holds barred sport fighting: a 10 year review of mixed martial arts competition’ (2006) 40 British Journal of Sports Medicine 169

Resources

British Boxing Board of Control:
http://www.bbbofc.com/
New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, Mixed Martial Arts Unified Rules of Conduct:
http://www.state.nj.us/lps/sacb/docs/martial.html

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Chapter 8: Liability for dangerous premises and dangerous events

Resources

Romford Bombers Speedway Team – a history of the legal action taken against them:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.knightley/

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Chapter 9 Stadium disasters and spectator safety

Hillsborough

Hillsborough Independent Panel resources:
http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/

Resources

Sports Grounds Safety Authority:
http://www.flaweb.org.uk/
Football Safety Officers’ Association:
http://www.fsoa.org.uk/
Football Safety Officers’ Association (Scotland):
http://www.footballsafety.com/
Safety at Sports and Recreational Events Act 2010 (South Africa):
http://www.polity.org.za/article/safety-at-sports-and-recreational-events-act-no-2-of-2010-2010-06-17

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Chapter 10: Crowd disorder and football hooliganism

Legislation

The Football Spectators (2010 World Cup Control Period) Order 2010
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2010/uksi_20100130_en_1

Articles

Broadbent, ‘Swearing and s.5 Public Order Act 1986’ (2013) 77(2) Journal of Criminal Law 98

Resources

Marsh, Fox, Carnibella, McCann and Marsh, Football Violence in Europe:
http://www.sirc.org/publik/football_violence.html
The Council of Europe, European Convention on Spectator Violence:
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/sport/violence/convention_en.asp

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Chapter 11: Regulating sporting relationships in English law

Articles

McArdle, ‘One hundred years of servitude: contractual conflict in English professional football before Bosman’ [2000] 2 Web Journal of Current Legal Issues:
http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/2000/issue2/mcardle2.html
McArdle, ‘Just one of the challenges of 21st-Century life: Oscar Pistorius in the Court of Arbitration for Sport’ (2008) 5(2) Script-ed:
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/mcardle.pdf
Wolbring, ‘Oscar Pistorius and the future nature of Olympic, Paralympic and other sports’ (2008) 5(1) Script-ed:
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-1/wolbring.pdf

Hearings

Keegan v Newcastle United Football Club Ltd [2010] 1 SLR-1. See also:
http://www.leaguemanagers.com/news/news-6426.html

Resources

FA Football Agents Regulations:
http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance
FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players 2012:
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/administration/01/95/83/85//regulationsstatusandtransfer_e.pdf
Premier League Handbook 2012-13:
http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/handbooks/premier-league-handbook-2012-2013.pdf
IAAF, Medical Code – Hyperandrogenism and sex reassignment:
http://www.iaaf.org/about-iaaf/documents/medical#hyperandrogenism-and-sex-reassignment

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Chapter 12: Regulating sporting relationships in EU law

Reports

Parrish, Garcia, Miettinen and Siekmann, The Lisbon Treaty and EU Sports Policy, IP/B/CULT/IC/2010-028:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=en&file=32471

Resources

Court of Arbitration for Sport (cases):
http://www.tas-cas.org/recent-decision
EU Commission’s sport portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/sport/index_en.htm
EU Commission, Directorate General for Competition’s decisions on sport:
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/sports/decisions.html
European Team Sports Federations, Safeguarding the heritage and future of team sport in Europe:
http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/uefa/keytopics/74/35/95/743595_download.pdf
FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players:
http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/administration/playersagents/regulationstatustransfertsplayers.html
UEFA Champions League Regulations 2012-13 (Art.18):
http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Regulations/competitions/Regulations/01/79/68/69/1796869_DOWNLOAD.pdf
World Anti-Doping Code:
http://www.wada-ama.org/rtecontent/document/code_v2009_En.pdf

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Chapter 13: The fan as consumer and the commercial exploitation of sport

Articles

Walsh, ‘Are personality rights finally on the UK agenda?’ (2013) 35(5) European Intellectual Property Review 253

Resources – touting

House of Commons Culture Media and Sport Committee, ‘Ticket Touting’ (HC 202, 2008):
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmcumeds/202/202.pdf
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, ‘Government Response to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Report on Ticket Touting’ (Cm 7346, 2008):
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm73/7346/7346.pdf

Articles – broadcasting

Geey, ‘The legality of football broadcasts in the UK and the lack of choice for publicans in the Premier League broadcasting market’ (2007) 5(1) Entertainment and Sports Law Journal:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/issues/volume5/number1/geey
Geey and James, ‘The Premier League-European Commission broadcasting negotiations’ (2006) 4(1) Entertainment and Sports Law Review:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/issues/volume4/number1/geey_james
Lefever, Cannie and Valcke, ‘Watching live sport on television: a human right? The right to information and the list of major events regime’ [2010] 4 European Human Rights Law Review 396
Lefever and Werkers, ‘Digital sports content: the rise of new media players and the legal consequences in terms of obligations and liability risk’ (2010) 21(6) Entertainment Law Review 215
Massey, ‘Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) v Euroview Sport Ltd - extra time? English courts refer further questions to the European Court of Justice on copyright and conditional access relating to football broadcasts in Europe’ (2010) 21(7) Entertainment Law Review 278

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Chapter 14: Olympic law and sporting mega-events

Article

De Beer, ‘Let the Games Begin…Ambush Marketing and Freedom of Speech’ (2012) 6(2) Human Rights and International Legal Discourse 284
James and Osborn, ‘Consuming the Olympics: the fan, the rights holder and the law’ for the British Library:
http://www.bl.uk/sportandsociety/exploresocsci/parlaw/law/articles/consuming.pdf

Resources

British Olympic Association:
http://www.teamgb.com/
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, FOI Response – CMS case number 106119
Major Events Management Act 2007, New Zealand:
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2007/0035/latest/DLM411987.html
Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol:
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/nairobi/trtdocs_wo018.html
Olympic Charter:
http://www.olympic.org/Documents/olympic_charter_en.pdf
British Library, The Summer Olympics and Paralympics through the lens of Social Science:
http://www.bl.uk/sportandsociety/index.html

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