Fair Play

This memoir by a still rare example of a solicitor silk, still rarer because of his sports law specialism, is a riveting read showing how his skills as an advocate have been fluently transitioned into equal skills as an author … in my opinion, no serious sports lawyer can be without this book, and anyone interested in any aspect of sport and law would enjoy it. * Michael Beloff KC, International Sports Law Review *
As The Times’ Martyn Ziegler reported … Taylor has now done the one thing dark lawyers aren’t supposed to: written it all down. Fair Play: Fighting to Protect the Spirit of Sport is part memoir, part case file, part justification. And what a file. The book’s gut-punch is the human cost … It is the rare integrity lawyer willing to admit in print that the spirit-of-sport crusade comes with a personal invoice and that the loathing governing bodies prefer to outsource lands on the litigator, not the institution. * LawFuel *

Jonathan Taylor KC is a partner in Bird & Bird’s Sports Group in London. Over the past three decades, he has advised governing bodies, event organisers, and others active in the sector, across all major sports both nationally and internationally, on a range of commercial, regulatory, and contentious issues. These include commercial disputes, investigations, challenges to regulatory decisions, and enforcement of sport rules and regulations in disciplinary proceedings and appeals.

An experienced advocate, Jonathan appears regularly before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, as well as a range of internal sports tribunals. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel (now KC) in 2017 in recognition of the quality of his advocacy.

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