Blog archive

In early April 2022, UK Sport – the body responsible for allocating Government and National Lottery funds across the high-performance sporting system in the UK – announced the launch of ‘Sport Integrity’, an independent disclosure and complaints service for Olympic and Paralympic sport.

For an avid football fan and a pizza chef, isn’t the perfect name for your new mushroom (champignon in German) pizza, Champignons League? For the owner and pizza chef Sadi Souri of Pizza Wolke in Giessen, Germany, this was precisely the perfect name.

A recent Court of Appeal decision was welcome news for Bath Rugby Club as it enables the planned construction of a new 18,000-seater capacity stadium.

Forest Green Rovers has just published revised plans for the Eco Park which will include an all-wooden 5,000 seat stadium.

Rachael Somerset,  a specialist in reputation management, spoke to Manchester Evening News about some practical advice that athletes (and anyone on social media for that matter) should heed before firing off a tweet.

The FA has today (12 February 2021) published the written reasons in the case of The FA v Nathaniel Mendez-Laing...

On 1 December 2020, The Home Office approved the revised entry requirements for overseas players post Brexit.

A recent case affecting Bath Rugby Club may mean that the club has to abandon its plan to build a new 18,000 seater stadium...

The Who’s Who Legal (“WWL”): Sport & Entertainment 2020 Awards were announced today, and we are absolutely delighted that our Mark Hovell has been selected as Sports Lawyer of the Year, and Mills & Reeve LLP were announced as the Sports Firm of the Year!

FIFA has today published the final version of its Anti-Doping Rules (“ADR”) which come into force on 1 January 2021...

Our Carol Couse and Tiran Gunawardena have contributed a chapter to a book to be published by The Sports Law and Policy Centre titled “Transfers of Football Players: A practical approach to implementing FIFA rules.”