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Law In Sport Podcast

Law In Sport Podcast

LawInSport

Law In Sport podcast brings news & interviews with leading figures from the world of sport and law.

276 - Increase competition & trends in sports disputes - John Mehrzad KC - E140
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  • 276 - Increase competition & trends in sports disputes - John Mehrzad KC - E140

    Sports lawyer, barrister and arbitrator, John Mehrzad KC discusses his recent move to Fountain Court Chambers, and what this means for the potential for increased competition in sports law, and improved representation in the sports law market. John shares his view on the value of sports clients (international federations, governing bodies, clubs, athletes, coaches, etc) having a range of expertise available at them. and the wider trend of global disputes in sport. Key Points • John discusses his move to Fountain Court Chambers and why this exciting for him personally, his chambers, and the sports law market. (2:26) • The growth and development of sports law as a practice area and its increasing importance in the global sports industry. (3:53) • The impact of John's move on the market and the potential for increased competition and improved representation for athletes, governing bodies, and sponsors, etc. (6:29) • The changes to scale of the sports law market and the need for sports stakeholders to having more options for high-quality legal services, which can be beneficial for regulators and sports organisations, athletes, coaches, etc. (8:52) • The trends in global disputes in sports, and why there will be a greater need to more wider expertise legal teams, especially with cross-jurisdictional issues becoming more common (22:31)

    Mon, 11 Dec 2023 - 34min
  • 275 - A career dedicated to helping players - Brendan Schwab, World Players Association - E139

    Brendan Schwab has spent his career helping, and leading, players and sports organisation to be better prepared to face the challenges they face. In this episode, Brendan reflects on his career to date and provides a fascinating insight into sport, law, industrial relations, human rights and leadership. In this interview Brendan talks about: How and why he started working in sport. The biggest challenge to players when he first started representing players and helped establish the Professional Footballers Australia. His journey to become Executive Director of the World Players Association. His biggest influences in professional and personally. What he considers to be biggest achievement of his career. The future of Player Unions in the coming years. Advice to anyone inspired to be involved helping players. Referenced by Brendan in the interview: Jim Collins book Good to Great The Uluru Statement Fro The Hear: https://ulurustatement.org/the-statement/#:~:text=The%20Uluru%20Statement%20from%20the%20Heart,-The%20Uluru%20Statement&text=It%20asks%20Australians%20to%20walk,treaty%20making%20and%20truth%2Dtelling. Bobby Kennedy - day of affirmation speech: https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/robert-f-kennedy/robert-f-kennedy-speeches/day-of-affirmation-address-university-of-capetown-capetown-south-africa-june-6-1966 Biography Brendan is Australian chief executive officer, lawyer and non-executive director working across the labour movement, human rights, sports, and business, internationally and domestically. An architect of the global and Australian player association movements as a co-founder of the World Players Association, FIFPRO Asia / Oceania, the Australian Athletes’ Alliance (AAA) and Professional Footballers Australia (PFA). He has represented and worked with the strongest player associations in the world in sports such as football, rugby, rugby league, cricket, Australian rules, American football, hockey, basketball, and baseball as well as multiple teams and athletes, including Australia’s Socceroos and Matildas. Throughout a 30-year career, he has also played an important role in the transformation of Australian football built on the creation of a new governing body, new professional leagues, collective bargaining, engagement with Asia, and gender equality. The host is Sean Cottrell (@spcott), founder and CEO of LawInSport. For more sports law news, commentary and analysis go to LawInSport.com Upcoming Events: www.lawinsport.com/sports-law-events LawInSport Recruitment: www.lawinsport.com/careers/recruitment-services. LawInSport Academy Mentoring Scheme: www.lawinsport.com/announcements Follow us on Twitter @LawInSport and Sean at @spcott. Listen to podcast on: Soundcloud: @lawinsport iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lawl…rts-law-podcast Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7zNCAlkXxL2…knQeSAKSdXKUL2kA

    Fri, 24 Feb 2023 - 1h 00min
  • 274 - A trailblazer in Italian and international sports law - Prof Massimo Coccia - E138

    Massimo Coccia is founding partner of Coccia De Angelis & Associati law firm. He holds a J.D. degree cum laude from the Law School of the University of Rome Sapienza (1981) and a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the University of Michigan Law School (1984), which he attended with a Fulbright fellowship. It is universally recognized that Mr. Coccia has an extensive experience of, and is an authority in, sports law and in commercial arbitration at international and national level, both as an arbitrator and as a counsel. He has been involved in almost 400 arbitration proceedings (mostly international). He also has been frequently involved in regulatory matters such as antitrust and energy, as well as in entertainment law issues. He is frequently retained as legal advisor or counsel by international and national federations, leagues, clubs, teams, agents and athletes of various sports. Within football, in particular, Mr. Coccia was appointed as the Interim Vice-Commissioner of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in 2006-2007, in the wake of a match-fixing scandal and authored important reforms of the rules and governance of FIGC. Since 1995, Massimo Coccia has been an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where he is regarded as one of the most experienced arbitrators, having sat in about 300 cases and drafted many prominent awards, having also been a CAS arbitrator at the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City 2002, Turin 2006 and London 2012. Massimo Coccia is also a tenured law professor, teaching International Law at the Tuscia University of Viterbo as well as European Competition Law at the University of Rome Sapienza. Massimo also frequently teaches in graduate courses and seminars on international and national sports law. He has published extensively on issues of sports law, international arbitration, international trade law and EU law, and is often invited to speak at symposia on those subjects. The host is Sean Cottrell (@spcott), founder and CEO of LawInSport. For more sports law news, commentary and analysis go to LawInSport.com Upcoming Events: www.lawinsport.com/sports-law-events LawInSport Recruitment: www.lawinsport.com/careers/recruitment-services. LawInSport Academy Mentoring Scheme: www.lawinsport.com/announcements Follow us on Twitter @LawInSport and Sean at @spcott. Listen to podcast on: Soundcloud: @lawinsport iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lawl…rts-law-podcast Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7zNCAlkXxL2…knQeSAKSdXKUL2kA

    Thu, 26 Jan 2023 - 51min
  • 273 - The future of African club football - CAF Club Licensing System and Stadiums Regulations

    In July 2022, after a delay due the pandemic, the CAF Executive Committee adopted a new regulatory framework for the CAF Club Licensing System and Stadiums framework. The new regulations are the first major reform of CAF's club licensing system and stadiums since first introduced in 2012, which include regulations on men's club licensing, women's club licensing and stadium regulations. We are joined by the following speakers: Farai Razano, Attorney, Razano Attorneys Brian Wesaala, Founder & Project Leader, Football Foundation for Africa Abdallah Shehata, Attorney at Law, Sportiva Law Muhammad Sidat, Head of Professional Football, Confederation of African Football Cynthia Mumbo, Founder & CEO, Sports Connect Africa Khayran Noor, Program Director, LawInSport Sean Cottrell, CEO, LawInSport In this podcast, our expert panel of speakers discuss: The major changes and reforms adopted How CAF plans to manage and oversee the implementation of the regulations Do clubs have the resources to comply with the regulations? The impact on African football Implementation strategies to be adopted by clubs We thoroughly enjoyed the interview and took a lot away from it. We hope you do the same.  The host is Sean Cottrell (@spcott), founder and CEO of LawInSport. For more sports law news, commentary and analysis go to LawInSport.com Upcoming Events: www.lawinsport.com/sports-law-events LawInSport Recruitment: https://www.lawinsport.com/careers/recruitment-services. LawInSport Academy Mentoring Scheme: www.lawinsport.com/announcements Follow us on Twitter @LawInSport and Sean at @spcott. Listen to podcast on: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lawinsport iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lawlnsport-sports-law-podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zNCAlkXxL2XEfypDApye8?si=nViULnknQeSAKSdXKUL2kA

    Mon, 12 Dec 2022 - 1h 28min
  • 272 - Football, FIFA & Diego Maradona - Paolo Lombardi - E136

    Our guest for this show is Paolo Lombardi, founder of Lombardi Associates. He has had an illustrious career in football and law. In this show Paolo talks about his time at the start of the FIFA's legal department, meeting Diego Maradona in a disciplinary case, starting a sports law firm and more. Paolo Is the founder and managing director of Lombardi Associates, a boutique sports regulatory firm which acts for a range of football stakeholder clients including clubs, players, coaches, intermediaries, associations, leagues and investors, also providing external advice to law firms. Paolo currently assists a significant number of clubs in the Italian Serie A, as well as providing advice to Lega Serie A and a number of clubs in Scotland and England, and internationally. The area of focus being transfers, dispute resolution, breach of contract, training compensation and solidarity mechanism, registration of minors and more. In addition, he also assists clubs with both UEFA and national licensing issues, including proceedings before CAS. Paolo has been involved in a number of cases which have shaped the jurisprudence of CAS. Lombardi Associates has now been in active in the market for over 10 years. Prior to Lombardi Associates, Paolo worked at FIFA joining the FIFA Players’ Status Department in 2002, becoming Deputy Head in 2006. He was responsible for players’ agents and involved in landmark cases, including Mexes, Webster, Mutu. In 2007 he was appointed Head of FIFA Disciplinary and Governance, overseeing disciplinary and governance matters both in-house and at various FIFA tournaments such as the Beijing Olympics and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He was involved in the drafting and regular updating of all FIFA regulations relevant to his positions.  Paolo is as Specialist Arbitrator for Sport Resolutions. The host is Sean Cottrell (@spcott), founder and CEO of LawInSport. For more sports law news, commentary and analysis go to LawInSport.com Upcoming Events: www.lawinsport.com/sports-law-events LawInSport Recruitment: www.lawinsport.com/careers/recruitment-services. LawInSport Academy Mentoring Scheme: www.lawinsport.com/announcements Follow us on Twitter @LawInSport and Sean at @spcott. Listen to podcast on: Soundcloud: @lawinsport iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lawl…rts-law-podcast Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7zNCAlkXxL2…knQeSAKSdXKUL2kA

    Fri, 02 Dec 2022 - 42min
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