SPORTS LAW
Our barristers combine their interest and passion for sports with their experience, expertise and advocacy skills developed in our other core areas of practice. Our members can represent clubs, players, managers, governing bodies and associations.
Our expertise includes:
- Disciplinary Tribunals
- Regulation
- Arbitration
- Anti-Doping
- Contractual matters
- Governance
- Criminal matters
Football Supporter Law
This is a specialist and unique area of law in which the head of our sports law team, Alison Gurden, has a wealth of experience. Barristers can advise and represent in the following areas:
– Defending Football Banning Orders (both criminal and Civil)
– Defending fans charged with football related offences such as pitch invasion, drinking in sight of the pitch, possession of a smoke bomb or flare
– Appealing Football Banning Orders
– Challenging the decision of a football club to cancel a season ticket
– Obtaining information on the data and intelligence held on a football supporter by the police and/or football club
– Advising on Football Policing
SPORTS CONTRACTS
Members of Chambers work closely with agencies and promoters, being instructed to advise on sports contracts, with a particular focus on boxing contracts for high profile fights.
To instruct a barrister, please contact the Clerks’ room on 0207 440 4949 or by email at clerks@greatjames.co.uk
CONTACT
CONTACT OUR CLERKS TO DISCUSS HOW WE CAN BEST ASSIST YOU.
Great James Street Chambers
0207 440 4949
www.greatjames.co.uk
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