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News & Events
The Legal 500 UK 2026 rankings have been announced and Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to share the highlights from this year’s rankings including 2 Top Tier rankings amongst our 10 set recommendations, and over 140 individual rankings. We are proud to share that we have been recognised as a Top Tier Set in Crypto & Blockchain Assets and Pensions once again this year. These coveted Tier 1 badges sit amongst our set rankings for excellence in ten practice areas which includes some of our flagship teams; Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Employment and Financial Services Regulation. This is in addition to our Tier 1 Commercial ranking in the Middle East rankings. These set rankings couldn’t have been achieved without the…
News 7 Oct, 2025
Louis Weston joined a line up of experts at the ‘Safeguarding Sport in Mexico – Focus on Tackling Competition Manipulation’ Conference on 26th and 27th August 2025 in Mexico. If not properly addressed, the manipulation of sports competitions and corruption in sport represent a global threat to the integrity, credibility, and fairness of sport. These phenomena can affect any discipline, country, or level of play, and have been increasingly exploited by organized criminal networks. This event, organised by UNODC in Mexico, with the support of IOC and FIFA, focused on supporting efforts aimed at protecting the 2026 FIFA World Cup from competition manipulation. The two-day workshop trained law enforcement and prosecutors, anti-corruption institutions, sports and educational organisations, develop a legal…
News 28 Aug, 2025
Oliver Lawrence has been published in LawInSport in an article titled ‘What athletes need to know about sports betting and anti-corruption rules’. Oliver Lawrence has written an article for LawInSport titled ‘What athletes need to know about sports betting and anti-corruption rules’, published on Tuesday 22nd July 2025. It might be thought that the job of an athlete is difficult but simple: try to win and don’t cheat. If only things were that straightforward. In recent years, governing bodies have enforced the full extent of their codes of conduct to try to root out corruption and ensure fair play. Match-fixing is the headline example, for which severe punishments have been handed out. But there are other possible infringements of anti-corruption…
External Publications, News 23 Jul, 2025
Louis Weston delivered a webinar session on ‘Drafting Effective Safeguarding Policies’ to Sport Resolutions, as part of their Sport Case Management Programme on Thursday 10th July 2025. The webinar focused on policies to help all participating National Governing Bodies (NGBs) strengthen their safeguarding frameworks. The session covered the common challenges in drafting safeguarding policies and subsequent disciplinary processes, and provided clear, practical guidance for creating a procedure that is both legally robust and operationally effective. The webinar session also highlighted the safeguarding process from end-to-end, from referral to hearing, providing tips and suggestions to create a seamless and effective framework to assist NGBs to manage and progress cases. Key Topics Covered included: Policy vs Procedure: Getting the Balance Right –…
News 14 Jul, 2025
We are delighted to announce that our Head of Sports Law, Louis Weston, has been appointed to the Independent Ethics Board (IEB) of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as an Independent UK Board Member. WADA is an international independent agency composed and funded by the Sports Movement and governments of the world. In 2021, WADA approved a Code of Ethics, recognising the importance of ensuring these high standards and establishing clear ethical standards over the activities of WADA Officials (as defined in the WADA Code of Ethics). These reforms included the creation of an Independent Ethics Board (IEB). Louis Weston has specialised in Sports Law for over 15 years and has appeared in many of the leading cases in the…
News 3 Jun, 2025
Louis Weston acted for the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) in resisting the appeal by Mark King Jones against a five-year ban for match fixing. Louis, the Head of Outer Temple’s Sports Law team acted for the WPBSA in resisting an appeal by snooker player Mark King against the finding that he had engaged in match fixing. The ban was handed down in November 2024 by an independent disciplinary committee, which Mr. King appealed against liability-only on multiple grounds. His appeal was dismissed on all grounds in a clear and helpful guide to how a sports law appellate body will address issues on review. The sanction that was imposed at the original hearing will stand. The full decision of…
News 16 May, 2025
Head of Outer Temple’s Sports Law team, Louis Weston has been published in the LawInSport magazine. The article acts as a guide for sports governing bodies on how they should put into effect anti-corruption policies and procedures governing the sport and the tournaments they deal with. Louis Weston’s article titled ‘Top 10 Tips for Sports Organisations & Tournament Organisers on Implementing Anti-Corruption Policies’ draws upon his experience having advised governing bodies in the UK and internationally on the structure and methods of policing sports related corruption. He has also acted as a prosecutor for many cases involving corruption, including for the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, the Darts Regulatory Authority, British Horseracing Authority, Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board and Jockey…
External Publications, News 4 Apr, 2025
Sarah Crowther KC has been appointed as one of the 14 members of England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP). We are delighted to announce that Sarah Crowther KC has been appointed as a member of England and Wales Cricket Board’s Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP), effective from 1 April 2025. The Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP) will take over from the current Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC). The CDP is an independent tribunal which will hear and adjudicate on cases of alleged regulatory breaches in professional cricket, and decide what sanctions are appropriate for any breaches that are found to have occurred. It’s function will be to consider cases brought before it by the Cricket Regulator, the body responsible…
News 2 Apr, 2025
Louis Weston acted for Table Tennis England in the prosecution of four players involved in betting on fixed outcomes in Table Tennis matches in Ukraine. Louis, the Head of Outer Temple’s Sports Law team acted for Table Tennis England in the case of players Luke Savill, Darius Knight, Joseph Langham-Ferreira and Kazeem Adeleke, where they were all found guilty of match fixing and unusual betting activity. The case arose from the match fixing by Australian Adam Green in 2021. The Gambling Commission began an investigation after receiving reports of unusual and suspicious betting activity from licensed operators on matches held in Ukraine in 2020 that were linked to British betting accounts. Table Tennis England collaborated with experts from the Gambling…
News 31 Mar, 2025
Louis Weston acted for the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) in the prosecution of professional darts player Prakash Jiwa for betting offences and match fixing under DRA Rules. Louis, the Head of Outer Temple’s Sports Law team acted for the DRA in the case of Prakash Jiwa, where the player was found guilty of fixing four matches and betting on darts at a hearing before the Darts Regulation Authority Disciplinary Committee. The case arose from Mr Jiwa deliberately losing the matches for his associates to bet upon. Jiwa, a three time winner of the PDC Tour card, has been suspended for 8 years from the sport, and faced a fine of £17,741.46. The DRA said that the decision “sends a clear message…
News 24 Mar, 2025
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…
External Publications, News 20 Mar, 2025
Louis Weston acted for the Badminton World Federation (BWF) in the prosecution of Liew Daren and Jerry Gan for betting offences under the Rules of the BWF. Head of Outer Temple’s Sports Law team, Louis Weston represented the Badminton World Federation at an Independent Hearing Panel where former Malaysian badminton player Liew Daren and former National Sports Institute (ISN) performance analyst Jerry Gan were found guilty of betting violations and match-fixing. The case followed a hearing in Malaysia in May 2021, in which the Coach and Analyst were found to have bet on a series of badminton matches discovered by messages between them on phones. The decision of the BWF Independent Hearing Panel was published in December 2024 and both…
News 27 Jan, 2025
