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A Solicitors' Practice for Sport
Like all those who are accustomed to winning, the expression ‘preparation is the key to success’ will be only too familiar to Lance Armstrong. In all his years of competing however, never has this been truer than the preparation which has unquestionably been undertaken by his lawyers in advance of his forthcoming interview with Oprah [...]
From 1 February 2013, new laws will come into force under the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2012 (SI 2012/3007). This will see the limits on tribunal awards increase. The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal will rise from £72,300 to £74,200 and the maximum amount of a week’s pay, used to calculate statutory [...]
In the last blog on ambush marketing I dealt in outline with the forms ambush marketing can take and touched on the range of devices that can be used to prevent it, and the way those devices have been specifically supplemented by legislation. In this blog I will touch in outline upon some of the [...]
Time and time again, despite all of the warnings and guidance given to athletes and professionals alike, we still see them using Twitter* as an open message board to vent their opinions to the entire world without having any consideration of their audience. What they haven’t yet grasped is the fact that a tweet is [...]
Two days before the London Olympics officially start, it has been reported that nine, yes that’s correct a staggering nine track and field athletes have been suspended for doping offences. Given that it is such a current topic, we have explored in this blog the purpose of WADA and the impact it has on the [...]
In the first blog in this series I looked at some of the considerations surrounding ambush marketing, where one company has paid a large sum to be the official sponsor of a sports event and another, rival, company seeks to “ambush” those rights by generating media publicity associating it with the event without paying the [...]
As the Olympic Games is now under way, with women’s football taking place even before the official opening ceremony, it seemed like a useful time to consider the problem that the event organisers face from ambush marketing, and how the media are already reporting some of the stories that are emerging. There have been a [...]
The turmoil at Glasgow Rangers continues. We have seen over the weekend that two high profile first team players, Steven Naismith and Steven Whittaker have terminated their contracts with Glasgow Rangers. Both players are in their peak of their career and would probably be valued in the marketplace at somewhere in the region of £3 [...]
Paul Chambers lost his job as an Accountant following an avalanche of publicity when he was convicted in May last year of sending “an electronic comunication of a menacing character”, contrary to provisions of the 2003 Communications Act. The contrite comedian who tweeted a joke threat to “blow up” Robin Hood airport in south Yorkshire [...]
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