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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 : [email protected]
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
distinguished specialist in sports law" and by the Daily Telegraph as "the silkiest assassin in sport".
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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.