8th ANNUAL SPORTS LAW

CONFERENCE 2019

MEDIATION IN SPORT

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Friday 15th November 2019

8:30am Breakfast and Registration

9:00am Conference Welcome

The Honourable Lord Justice Mccloskey

9:15am Chair's Opening Remarks & Current

Law Update

Keith McGarry - Sports Law NI &

Conn & Fenton Solicitors

9:45am International Sporting Issues

Video Link from Melbourne Professor

Jack Anderson

1 0:00am The Effective Resolution of Sports

Disputes -Litigation, Arbitration or

Mediation?-the CAS Experience

Michael Beloff QC

Barrister & Artibtrator

Blackstone Chambers

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11:00am

11:15am

12:00pm

1:15pm

2:00pm

2:15pm

COFFEE BREAK

A reflection on the British Open

2019

Wilma Erskine

Retired Secretary-Manager

Royal Portrush Golf Club

Moot Mediation in Pratice

Richard Harry

Chief Executive Officer

Sports Resolution UK

Panel Discussion Chair: Keith

McGarry

Panel Members:

1. Michael Beloff QC

2. Richard Harry

3. Bernie Fox

4. Brian Speers

Conference Summary

Keith McGarry - Sports Law NI &

Conn & Fenton Solicitors

Closing Remarks - Suzanne Rice

President of The Law Society of

Northern Ireland

Lunch and Discussion

Conference Fee: £90

*Conference provides 5 general group study CPD

hours. Attendees of the conference will be

eligible for a discounted green fee post event.

To book your conference place and/or golf slot

please email : jennifer.ferguson@lawsoc-ni.org

Michael Beloff

Michael Beloff QC practices from Blackstone Chambers, Temple, London in constitutional, administrative

and sports law. He is a former President of Trinity College, Oxford, Treasurer of Grays Inn, Senior

Ordinary Appeal Judge of Jersey and Guernsey, and President of the British Association of Sport and

Law. He was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Chambers Directory 2009 annual bar legal

awards and has three honorary doctorates. He has been a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport

(CAS) for 20 years deciding over 120 case, and has been appointed to arbitrate as member of an ad hoe

CAS panel at five summer Olympics including Rio 2016 and at three Commonwealth Games. He is

Chairman of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Code of Conduct Commission, Chairman of the

ICC's Dispute Resolution Committee, a Steward of the Royal Automobile Club, a member of the FIA

International Appeal Tribunal, of the lronman Appeal Tribunal and the European Golf tour doping appeal

panel. He was Ethics Commissioner for the London 2012 Olympic bid and has been, since 2014,

Chairman of the IAAF Ethics Board. He is honorary legal adviser to the London 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships. He was for eight

years President of the British Association of Sport and Law.

Among his credentials he was described in the Daily Telegraph in 2011 as "probably the most eminent sports lawyer in the world", by the

Guardian in 2012 as "the go to man for sporting disputes" and in 2016 by The Times as "by far the UK's and maybe the world's most

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Richard Harry

Richard has been Chief Executive at Sport Resolutions since April 2016. Richard joined Sport

Resolutions in July 201 O and spent almost six years as firstly Dispute Resolution Manager and then

Legal Director.

He is a sports lawyer and former Chief Executive of the Welsh Rugby Players' Association. Richard

started his career as a specialist employment and sports lawyer at Hugh James Solicitors in Cardiff

before joining Clarke Willmott in Bristol

He left Clarke Willmott to establish the Welsh Rugby Players' Association and has acted as a Consultant

to the World Anti-Doping Agency. Richard is a Visiting Fellow to the School of Sport and Exercise at the

University of Gloucestershire.

Wilma Erskine

Wilma Erskine has been Manager of Royal Portrush Golf Club for almost 35 years and in golf

management 40 years. She played an instrumental part in securing the return of the Irish Open to

Northern Ireland in 2012 and The 148th Open in 2019 which was last held in 1951. In addition, a member

of the Golf Advisory Group established by Tourism Northern Ireland. Established the Irish Links Initiative

which was set up to exchange greenkeeping practice and networking within the Links courses in Ireland.

A member of Sport NI board which is under DFC since 2016 and more recently appointed as a Director

of Galgorm Hotel, Spa and Golf Resort.

Involved with various charity golf events and in recent years supports the North West 200 with raising

funds for Air Ambulance. Awarded British Empire Medal in 2013 for seNices to tourism and golf.

Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson joined Melbourne Law School in 2017. Previously he taught at the University of Limerick.

Jack became Senior Lecturer at Queen's in 2008, Reader in 2011, and Professor of Law in 2012, he

taught the law of torts; alternative dispute resolution; and sports law.

Jack contributes regularly to the media in Australia, Britain and Ireland on sports law matters. He is an

accredited workplace mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator. Jack is also a member of a number of sports

dispute resolution tribunals in the UK and Ireland such as Sport Resolutions UK; Just Sport Ireland; the

Football Association of Ireland's Disciplinary Panel; and the Gaelic Athletic Association's Disputes

Resolution Authority.

In 2016, he was appointed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and appeared on the list of arbitrators of

the CAS Ad hoe Division for the UEFA EURO 2016 (European football championships).

Keith McGarry

Keith is a Solicitor Advocate specialising in personal injury litigation. He is a partner in the firm of Conn

& Fenton Solicitors based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He has sat on the Disciplinary Panel of the Irish

Rugby Football Union (Ulster Branch).

Keith was an accomplished rugby player having played for Irish Universities and was capped by his

province, Ulster, at many levels including Senior representation. He currently coaches The Newforge

Taggers, the only rugby club in Ireland exclusively established for children and young adults with

learning difficulties which continues to spread the gospel of sport for athletes with special needs.

Whilst having a keen interest in all sports, he continues to play competitive golf to Senior Cup standard.

Keith represents the Northern Ireland Sports Forum on the Sport Resolutions UK Board and sits on the

Board's Finance and Human Resources Committee.