A professional sportsman should be allowed to have representation on a suspension hearing, which might affect his ability to earn his living. However Ebsworth J doubted the correctness of the intrusion of courts into such matters, saying that:’There is . . an air of unreality about a court sitting down to decide whether a player would have made a difference between his team winning or losing a particular match or whether or not he would have been selected for a particular game. It would also be difficult, if not impossible, for a court to calculate the cause of any demotion of a club if there were a suspension and whether and if so what loss flowed from that’.
Judges:
Ebsworth J
Citations:
Times 06-Mar-1997
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
At EAT – Jones and Another v Welsh Rugby Football Union; Same v Pugh (For and On Behalf of Welsh RFU) CA 19-Dec-1997
Disciplinary proceedings against a sportsman which had been set aside for him having received an unfair hearing, may be re-instated once the defects in the procedure were remedied. . .
Cited – Sankofa and Another v The Football Association Ltd ComC 12-Jan-2007
The claimant sought an injunction to order the defendant football association from preventing him playing on a football match. He had been sent off and was subject to an automatic additional one match ban. He sought to exercise a right under the . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Natural Justice, Employment
Updated: 10 May 2022; Ref: scu.82591