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Proving negligence in sports injury legal cases comes down to establishing what goes beyond the “norm” in playing culture.
After saying he was ‘deeply suspicious’, a judge cleared a man of child pornography offences. We need to understand the standard of proof to make sense of verdicts, including AFL rulings on doping.
The death of a 23-year-old boxer and the lifting of cage-fighting bans in every state but Western Australia raise the question of why we allow violence that would be criminal outside a ring or cage.
The multi-million dollar settlement of damages from one of the National Hockey League’s most famous punches is a reminder that violent incidences rarely come to the attention of the courts, though they…
The British Horse Racing Authority has revealed a total of seven racehorses have now tested positive for morphine in post-race samples. Unremarkable perhaps to a public jaded by reports of human athletes…
Footballers are employees, and they deserve the same protections from loss of earnings through injury as you or I. But the astronomical sums involved in the modern game could lead to a worrying situation…
Footballers, it turns out, want the same rights as everyone else. If you or I want to move jobs, our new employer doesn’t have to pay anything. Should football players be any different? To gain this freedom…
The only real winners in the whole Essendon drug supplement saga are set to be the lawyers. With all parties “lawyering up” and multiple court actions either under way or threatened, legal eagles will…
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University
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Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Reader in Sport Psychology, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University., Loughborough University
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Visiting Scholar, School of Business, CBR, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Law, De Montfort University
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Principal Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University
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Masters of Sport Law Student, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Professor of Economic Criminology, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of management science, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Public Management, University of York
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Assistant Professor in Law, Dublin City University