A NOTE BY PROF DR IAN BLACKSHAW ON A NEW BOOK ENTITLED ‘LEADING CASES IN SPORTS LAW’ EDITED BY JACK ANDERSON WHICH HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED
This is the latest Book (ISBN 978-90-6704-908-5; ISBN 978-90-6704-909-2 (eBook)) in the well-known and highly respected Asser International Sports Law Series that has just been published, and, if there were ever any doubts about the existence - and, indeed, importance - of Sports Law, this Book will surely put them to rest, as will be seen from its wide-ranging coverage as set out in the following Table of Contents!
Contents
Part I The Emergence of Sports Law
1 Abbot v Weekly (1665) 83 ER 357; 1 Lev 176 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jack Anderson
2 Federal League Baseball Club of Baltimore v National
League et al. 259 US 200 (1922) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Roger I. Abrams
3 Case C-36/74 Walrave and Koch [1974] ECR 1405 . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Richard Parrish
4 CAS 92/A/63 GUNDEL v FEI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Ian S. Blackshaw
Part II Player Mobility Versus Contractual Stability
5 Eastham v Newcastle United FC Ltd [1964] Ch 413 . . . . . . . . . . .77
Simon Boyes
6 From Bosman to Bernard C-415/93; [1995] ECR I-4921
to C-325/08; [2010] ECR I-2177 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Stefaan Van den Bogaert
Part III When the Private Business of Sport Becomes
the Public Business of Law
7 Finnigan v NZRFU (1985). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Chris Davies
8 R. v. Disciplinary Committee of the Jockey Club ex p. the Aga
Khan [1993] 1 WLR 909 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Michael Beloff
9 Case C-519/04 P Meca-Medina [2006] ECR I-6991. . . . . . . . . . .137
Stephen Weatherill
Part IV Doping and the Spirit of Sports Law
10 Modahl v British Athletic Federation (1994–2001) . . . . . . . . . . 155
Hazel Hartley
11 CAS 98/211 B v FINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Neville Cox
12 CAS 2004/O/645 USADA v Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
John O’Leary
13 CAS 2009/A/1912–1913 Pechstein v International
Skating Union. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
David McArdle
Part V Contemporary Issues in Sports Law
14 CAS 2008/A/1480 Pistorius v IAAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Steve Cornelius
15 American Needle Inc v NFL 130 S Ct 2201 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . .239
Matthew J. Mitten
16 Cases T-385/07, T-55/08 and T68/08 FIFA
and UEFA v Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
Katrien Lefever and An Vermeersch
17 Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08 FA Premier League Ltd
and Others v QC Leisure and Others; and Karen
Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd, 4 Oct 2011. . . . . . . . . . . 271
Johan Lindholm and Anastasios Kaburakis
18 R v Amir & Butt [2011] EWCA Civ 2914. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287
Simon Gardiner
Part VI Enduring Themes in Sports Law
19 Football and Crowds:
Gough and Smith v Chief Constable of Derbyshire [2002]
QB 1213. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Geoff Pearson
20 Player Violence and Compensation for Injury:
R v Barnes [2005] 1 Cr App Rep 507 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
Mark James
21 Animal Welfare and Blood Sports:
R (Countryside Alliance) v Attorney General [2008] 1 AC 719 . . . 337
Laura Donnellan
22 Gender and Equality:
Sagen v VANOC [2009] BCCA 522 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Hilary A. Findlay
Although necessarily selective, this Book provides a representative collection of cases, including landmark CAS and EU cases, which have contributed and continue to do so to an emerging and ever expanding ‘Lex Sportiva’.
The Book is the brainchild of and is edited by Prof Jack Anderson of Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, who provides the introductory remarks and also a historical contribution. As regards the selection of cases that are included in the Book, Anderson writes: “I wanted them to be included because I think they best portray the domestic, regional, inter and supra-national dimensions to sports law.” And how right he is in this summation.
Leaving aside, as one of the contributors myself, all of whom are leading academics and experienced practitioners, any question of being biased, this is a very useful and informative Book and well worth the price of €137.14. As such, it is one that should certainly be on the shelves of any self-respecting Sports Lawyer!
