Law

UEFA president, Michel Platini, is calling for less judicial interference in sport. His comments are reinforced by four of Europe’s team sport federations and the UK sports minister, all backing the European white paper on...[more]

High level support is pouring in to Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, the two American sports journalists who are facing jail for up to 18 months because they refuse to say who leaked them confidential grand jury testimonies...[more]

FIFA vice president Jack Warner is expected to drop his threat of legal action against the authors of an auditing report and some FIFA officials, reports The Daily Telegraph. But when the story of Warner’s alleged illegal sale of...[more]

Greek Deputy Sports Minister George Orfanos felt the heat this summer when FIFA excluded Greek football teams from international competitions. FIFA was unhappy with proposals for a new law which would open the Hellenic Football...[more]

Only a week after the IOC Ethic’s Commission reprimanded the French IOC member Guy Drut for tarnishing the reputation of the Olympic Movement, the president of the French National Olympic Committee has also appeared in court on...[more]

Two journalists from San Francisco Chronicle, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles to explain how they obtained transcripts of confidential grand jury...[more]

He was not allowed to give testimony in the Volleygate case in Lausanne. But now a Swedish former secretary in the FIVB Finance Committee tells the Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, how he feels hoodwinked by the FIVB president,...[more]

When the court case against FIVB president Ruben Acosta and two other FIVB officials opens in Lausanne on 8 March, the only witnesses allowed are those of the defendants. Judge Michel Carrard has turned down all witnesses...[more]