Sports Law

In the last decade Sports law has become an area of speciality for lawyers although, within the sporting context, it encompasses such diverse areas of legal practice as:

• Players' contracts and employment contracts generally.
• Commercial law applicable to external commercial transactions often involving media and merchandising companies.
• Sponsorship contracts.
• Personal Injury law.
• Disciplinary proceedings and appeals therefrom.
• Defamation.
• Child protection issues.

The Sports Law Group at New Walk Chambers offers practitioners at all levels of seniority to deal with the diverse nature of the disputes that can arise in a sporting context. It also has practitioners available to act as Arbitrators or Mediators in sports related matters.

The sports law barristers deal regularly with work in the following courts (among others):

• Leicester county court
• Nottingham county court
• Coventry county court
• Northampton county court
• Peterborough county court
• Derby county court
• Lincoln county court

The sports law barristers group consists of:

• Geraint Jones QC
• Robert C D Rees
• Nicholas George
• Ian H Jones
• Andrew Willetts
• Simon Reed
• Rhiannon Davies
• Adelle Eveleigh-Winstone
• Nathalie Bull
• Christopher Allen
• Kajal Dasani