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NLJ this week: Gold medal standard legal work

09 August 2024
Issue: 8083 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Sports law , Sports litigation , Copyright
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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? 

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Athelstane Aamodt, group legal advisor, Associated Newspapers, explains: ‘What is clear is that when it comes to rights protection, the Olympic Games comes top of the podium.’

Also in this week’s issue, Dr Ian Blackshaw hails the work of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which is poised to deal with any dispute or controversy entirely free of charge and within 24 hours. The Olympics aside, sports disputes are on the increase, particularly in the financially high-stakes arena of football.

Blackshaw writes: ‘Over the years, CAS has grown in influence and gained the trust of the international sporting community. Even the powerful world governing body of football, FIFA, has joined its ranks.’

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Jersey litigation lead appointed to global STEP Council

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

Firm invests in future talent with new training cohort

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
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