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What can football clubs do when medical treatment given to a player by a...
In recent years, football Clubs and their medical teams have seen a trend towards players seeking medical or holistic treatments from third party practitioners in circumstances where either the...
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How game theory can help us design more effective whistleblowing polices for...
“Whistleblowers”1 can play a vital role in protecting the integrity of sports. They have they been responsible for uncovering some of the highest profile cases of corruption in recent years, from the...
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How game theory can help us design more effective whistleblowing polices for...
This two part article considers how sports bodies can design more effective whistleblowing polices. Part 1 (available here) examined three interesting scenarios from the behavioural field of game...
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A guide to Australia’s new National Sports Tribunal
In November 2018, we published an article1 summarising the key points from the Report of the Review of Australia’s Sports Integrity Arrangements (Wood Review),2 which was produced at the request of...
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Best practice for sports organisations when managing betting compliance risks...
The sports betting industry is growing at an unparalleled rate. Thanks in no small part to the US Supreme Court opening the door to legal sports wagering across the USA, it is predicted that the value...
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Tax tips for not-for-profit sports clubs: how VAT impacts on facility...
The author’s article a year ago[1] provided an update on the main UK tax changes impacting the finances of not-for-profit sports clubs. This piece intends to concentrate on the costliest of those...
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Hedging your bets: how to regulate Brazil’s multi-billion-dollar sports...
In Brazil, casinos and book makers have been banned since 1946, and yet the act of placing a sports bet is not exactly illegal. Although our 1946 legislation[i] prohibited the establishment of...
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The Lifecycle Of An International Athlete - Key UK Income Tax Considerations...
This blog in our series for international athletes explains the key legal points regarding taxation that should be considered when coming to compete in the UK. Specifically, it addresses the following...
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Faces in the crowd: Legal considerations for use of facial recognition...
Originally Published 29 August 2018; Updated 2 June 2023. Authored by: Eva Pulliam, Mariam Chamilova and Richard L. Brand Facial recognition technology is being employed in increasingly creative ways...
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The lifecycle of an international athlete - Important pension considerations
This is the fifth in Penningtons Manches [Cooper]’s series of blogs addressing the key legal issues that international athletes and their advisors should consider before coming to work in the UK....
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