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.
If you wish to instruct a barrister under public access, then please contact the clerks direct.
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
- Boston county court
- Skegness county court
- Grimsby county court
- Scunthorpe county court
- Chesterfield county court
- Stoke-on-Trent county court
- Burton upon Trent county court
- Wellingborough county court
- Kettering county court court
- Mansfield county court
- Worksop county court
- Crewe county court
- Bedford county court
- Milton Keynes county court
- Melton mowbray county court
- Walsall county court
- Birmingham county court
- Wolverhampton county court
The sports law barristers group consists of:
Barristers in this area
