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A panel of retired UK judges has partially upheld Manchester City’s challenge to the Premier League’s sponsorship rules – as the club’s rivals now wait to see how the ruling will impact their own financing. 

08 October 2024

A panel of retired UK judges has begun hearing an arbitration filed by football club Manchester City against the Premier League over allegations the competition’s sponsorship rules are discriminatory. 

11 June 2024

Peter Turner KC is retiring from the partnership at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer after 27 years to join 39 Essex Chambers in London. 

03 May 2024

Saudi Arabia is lifting its ban on Qatari state-backed broadcaster beIN Sport, paving the way for the potential settlement of a billion-dollar investment treaty dispute and a UK arbitration over the purchase of an English football club.

07 October 2021

Football club Manchester City has failed to block publication of arbitration-related court rulings shedding light on the English Premier League’s still-pending investigation of its financial dealings.

22 July 2021

The High Court in London has dismissed Newcastle United’s bid to disqualify prominent sports lawyer Michael Beloff QC from chairing its arbitration against the English Premier League over an aborted £340 million takeover of the football club by a Saudi-backed consortium.

08 March 2021

Prominent French arbitration lawyer Jean-Georges Betto is reportedly facing a criminal investigation for alleged sexual and moral harassment, months after being sanctioned by the Paris Bar Council over inappropriate behaviour towards employees at his law firm.

01 July 2020

Australian arbitrator Douglas Jones AO has been appointed as a judge at the Singapore International Commercial Court.

10 October 2019

A panel in Paris has considered a new venture by GAR and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators to give countries Moody's or Standard & Poor's style ratings based on their desirability as a seat of arbitration and their support of the arbitral process and outcome.

25 July 2018

The English Court of Appeal has ruled that an arbitrator chairing an insurance case arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico ought to have disclosed his involvement in overlapping cases – but said his failure to do did not make him biased.

23 April 2018