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Bhavul Haria & Daniel Sheehan explain why serious disclosure failures did not end hundreds of former players’ brain injury claims

02 October 2026 / Bhavul Haria / Daniel Sheehan
NLJ this week: Rugby claims reprieved
More than 500 former rugby players can pursue brain injury claims despite serious failures to disclose documents ordered by the High Court
02 October 2026
NLJ this week: Mbappé row spotlights ‘ethics bonuses’
A €60.9m award to Kylian Mbappé has refocused attention on football’s controversial ‘ethics bonus’ clauses. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law examines how such provisions sit within French labour law
06 March 2026
Ethics on the payroll? Premium Content
The growing use of ethics bonus clauses in footballers’ employment contracts demands sophisticated drafting to avoid costly litigation, writes Dr Estelle Ivanova
05 March 2026 / Dr Estelle Ivanova
The backbone of employment law? Premium Content
Harry Sheehan on why the Supreme Court’s guidance on the common law test for employment status was much needed
25 October 2024 / Harry Sheehan
NLJ this week: Championship League refs decision goes beyond the pitch

The Supreme Court’s recent football referee decision on the common law test for employment status has ‘wide ramifications’ for employment law, Harry Sheehan, Devereux Chambers, writes in this week’s NLJ

25 October 2024
Swift justice at the Paris Olympics Premium Content
As the Games continue, sports lawyers are poised to deal with any Olympian controversies, writes Ian Blackshaw
09 August 2024 / Professor Dr Ian Blackshaw
NLJ this week: Gold medal standard legal work

The seeming impossibility of triple back-flips and impeccably synchronised dives may impress and inspire, but have you ever tried to breach the legal safeguards surrounding the five Olympics rings? 

09 August 2024
Olympic-standard rights protection Premium Content
Not only the athletes but the lawyers should win a gold medal, writes Athelstane Aamodt
09 August 2024 / Athelstane Aamodt
The Midas touch of Lionel Messi Premium Content
Michael Nash reflects on the contractual situation of football’s shooting star
16 September 2020 / Michael L Nash
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Law Officers mark 25 years of Pro Bono Week
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
NLJ this week: Who shaped the witness’s story?
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
NLJ this week: Possession’s digital pitfalls
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
NLJ this week: Debts, disputes & digital bluster
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
NLJ this week: Costs without limits?
An indemnity costs battle with a £20m gap could reopen an important question: what weight should an approved budget carry?
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