The claimant, a former Olypmic sprinter had now competed a ban after being found to have taken banned drugs. He had returned to the sprort but now challenged the policy of the respondent not to allow for consideration of the Olympic team, athletes who had completed a drugs ban save in special circumstances. He now applied for relief.
Judges:
Mackay J
Citations:
[2008] EWHC 2028 (QB)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Zockoll Group Limited v Mercury Communications Limited CA 8-Jul-1997
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Cited – Meca-Medina And Majcen v Commission (Competition) ECJ 18-Jul-2006
ECJ Opinion – Appeal – Rules adopted by the International Olympic Committee concerning doping control – Incompatibility with the Community rules on competition and freedom to provide services – Complaint – . .
Cited – Modahl v British Athletic Federation Limited CA 28-Jul-1997
Lord Woolf MR said: ‘The question of whether a complaint about the conduct of a disciplinary committee gives rise to a remedy in public law or private law or is often difficult to determine. However the complaint in both cases would be based on an . .
Cited – McInnes v Onslow-Fane ChD 1978
The applicant had been granted a boxing manager’s licence for several years. He appealed its refusal now over a few years.
Held: The case was in the application for a licence rather than in a forfeiture or an expectation class, and there was . .
Applied – Bradley v Jockey Club QBD 2004
The former jockey sought an injunction to restrain the respondent enforcing a ban it had imposed on him from working as a jockey for five years. The defendant had previously been ruled authoritatively not to be amenable to judicial review in public . .
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Judicial Review
Updated: 21 October 2022; Ref: scu.277898