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Many congratulations to Graham Gilbert whose sports expertise has been acknowledged through his recent appointment to Sport Resolutions Pro Bono Panel. Sport Resolutions is the independent, not-for-profit, dispute resolution service for sport in the United Kingdom. Established by the main stakeholder groups in sport, their aim is to provide an expert, speedy and cost effective alternative to internal appeals processes and court-based litigation. They provide sport specific arbitration and mediation services and operate the National Anti-Doping Panel...

Sports Barrister Graham Gilbert has represented the BHA in a disciplinary panel involving Rebecca Bastiman, following her horse Big Red being administered a Prohibited Substance. For more information on the hearing, please click here.

Sports Barrister Graham Gilbert has represented the BHA twice in disciplinary panels involving trainer Dean Ivory. The disciplinary panel in Dean Ivory - Links Drive Lady concerned the cross-contamination of the horse with hayfever medicine, as a result of contacts between the horse and her keepers, who were using hayfever medicine to alleviate their symptoms at the time. The disciplinary panel in Dean Ivory - Wotadoll involved the cross-contamination of Wotadoll with O-desmethyltramadol, a metabolite of tramadol which...

In his latest article for LawInSport, sports barrister Graham Gilbert reflects back on the British & Irish Lions' recent Tour of New Zealand and  the sending of All Black Centre Sonny Bill Williams in the second test: should cross code conduct be considered in mitigation in rugby disciplinary cases? Please click here to read Graham's analysis.  

3PB head of sports Louis Weston and sports barrister Gemma White have written an article for LawInSport calling for a unified approach to sanctions for corruption offences across sports disciplines. While the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has well known codified sanctions for doping violations, there is no consistency of punishment between sports for players or participants who breach anti-corruption or betting rules. Louis and Gemma's article examines the extent of the disparities, the reasons...

Louis Weston, head of the Sports Group, had a busy July acting for the WPBSA in the prosecution of former world number 2, Stuart Bingham (judgment reserved), the Turf Club, in the successful prosecution of Trainer Luke Comer, the GBGB in the successful prosecution of Nick Wileman, and the BHA in a race fixing case (judgment reserved).

Louis Weston, head of the Sports Group, acted for the BHA (leading Caoimhe Daly, of QEB) in the prosecution of jockey Carter and the trainer Wainwright and others in the alleged race fixing of the rise of BLAZEOFENCHANTMENT for the full coverage see The Guardian and The Racing Post.  

3PB sport law barrister Graham Gilbert has written an article for LawInSport on sexism in football and the independence of disciplinary panels in light of issues arising from the David Moyes case. David Moyes had made remarks towards an interviewer, Vicki Sparks in March 2017 and consequently faced a Football Association disciplinary hearing. The article looks at: The FA’s rules pertaining to Mr Moyes’ actions The main issues in the case Current concerns about football’s...

Louis Weston, Head of the 3PB sports group, acted, with Roderick McGuire of the Irish Bar, for the Turf Club in the successful prosecution under the Rules of Racing of Luke Comer Senior for breaches of his obligations as a trainer in respect of his supervision of his staff and records and for the misleading of Turf Club Officials. Sanction has been held over to November.  The case was heard on various occasions over a...

Louis Weston received a further Award celebrating his expertise in Sports Law advice. Louis was nominated by a large sample of corporate professionals, whose testimonies of his work were then judged by Global Awards Corporate Live Wire 2017’s panel. More than 100,000 professionals nominate for the Global Awards Corporate Live Wire each year. This Award is further acknowledgement of Louis’ first class Sports Law expertise. Louis is also recognised as a Band 1 Counsel for...

Gemma White has completed her LLM in Sports Law and Practice at De Montfort University, Leicester and will formally graduate with Distinction in July 2017. Gemma is a member of the Sports Law Team at 3PB, and her further qualification adds additional depth and strength to the Group.

West Indies cricketer Marlon Samuels received a full apology and will get undisclosed "substantial damages", after successfully suing former australian cricketer Geoff Lawson and broadcaster 2KY for defamation. This morning, Thursday  13 April, broadcaster issued an  apology to Marlon. Samuels instructed his lawyer Richard Owen-Thomas of 3PB Barristers in Temple, London after defamatory comments were made about him on the Big Sports Breakfast radio programme on 4th April last year. During the radio podcast Lawson made...