Year of Call: 2005
Year of Silk: 2020
Chambers: Littleton Chambers, London
Profile
John is a an employment and contract law specialist with extensive experience working within sport. His sports law practice focuses on financial disputes, including claims between clubs, managers, players and intermediaries/agents and regulatory issues, including disciplinaries, equalities and discrimination and doping allegations.
As well as representing members in arbitration proceedings John is also regularly appointed as an arbitrator in FA Rule K and EFL proceedings.
John also speaks and reads working French.
Expertise
- Employment
- Contract
- Discrimination
- Regulatory and Disciplinary
Appointments
- Member of The FA Chairman’s anti-discrimination panel of independent chairman
- Member of Sports Resolutions advocates panel
- Member of Legal Panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport
“Extremely personable, quick to respond and, as well as an employment law specialist, he is a very good sports law all-rounder.”
“Extremely user-friendly and spectacularly good.”
“Exceptional and a true heavyweight in his field.”
“If you want to win – you want him on your side before the opposition snaps him up.”