LawInSport; Sports Integrity, Betting & Financial Corruption – Annual Review 2024/25

Head of Outer Temple’s Sports Law team, Louis Weston has been published in the Sports Integrity chapter of the LawInSport Annual Review 2024/25 on betting and financial corruption.

The chapter gives a comprehensive summary of events, linking the key issues and developments of the past year. Louis Weston reviewed the topic of betting and financial corruption.

One quarter of the way through the first century of this millennium and, no surprise to Mr Sherlock Holmes, corrupters and the corrupt have not stopped trying to make illicit money from sport. The motives of money laundering, greed and envy drive the corrupt. The to and fro, the cat and mouse of the regulators, the state and the miscreants carried on globally with little sign that those who cheat were to recognise the errors of their ways and simply play fair and straight. Who though would think it would? It is a false expectation that humans might behave with humanity and integrity when at the international level nations still war against nations, and the great invention of the 21st Century, AI, is being put to use to create fake videos, news and images; the human condition is to tread from the path of the good.

Against which homily this review identifies some of the bigger cases and actions being taken, hoping to see in the light of the flickering candle of righteous endeavour that corruption, match-fixing and manipulation are being made harder, and punished when uncovered.

The article by Louis highlights various topics, including:

• Old friends and new
• Players and performers
• Esports
• Chess
• Cricket
• Tennis
• Action and redemption: what are the positives?
• Pulling together the threads and looking ahead

Read the full article

Read Louis Weston’s full article Sports Integrity: Betting & Financial Corruption – Annual Review 2024/25 here.

This article was published on Tuesday 18 March 2025 and is available to all LawInSport subscribers.

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Louis Weston is a highly regarded Commercial and Sports Law litigator. He has a wealth of experience across commercial litigation with an emphasis on matters arising from sport, civil fraud, professional negligence, gambling and failed business ventures. He is regularly instructed to gain injunctive relief and freezing orders. Louis mixes superb advocacy skills with ‘humour and charm’ and is complimented for his ‘strong intellect’ and being able to ‘quickly identify the key issues in any dispute’.

To find out more, contact Paul Barton on +44 (0)20 7427 4907 or Matt Sale on +44 (0)20 7427 4910 for a confidential discussion.

External Publications, News 20 Mar, 2025