Sep 24, 2024 FIFPRO’s Postpartum Return to Play Guide – Guidance for Regulatory Changes By Lereesa Easterbrook Eloise Barry As calls for greater equality in women's professional football ramp up, awareness is growing of the need to support players who decide to...
Mar 22, 2024 Women’s Sport Series – Weekend Read: The Legacy of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 By Tom Macken Brianna Quinn Sold-Out Jerseys, Record Attendance and Viewership Figures and $1.32 Billion of Economic Impact: The Legacy of the FIFA Women’s World Cup...
Feb 28, 2024 Reflections on the Lehrmann trial: Part 1 – Open justice in the modern (Australian) courtroom By Julie Cheeseman Jack Pink Evelyn Park Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial was of substantial public interest in Australia late last year, with thousands of viewers accessing the...
Aug 24, 2023 Women’s Sport Series: “C’mon Ref!” – Challenging Decisions and the ‘Field of Play’ Doctrine By Brianna Quinn Anna Davyskib Thomas Green This article is the first in our new ‘Women’s Sport Series’, shining a light on the opportunities and challenges faced by the wider sport...
Feb 21, 2023 Safeguarding in Sport: From Australia to the UK By Richard Bush Tom Macken Richard Bush, a partner in Bird & Bird’s international sports group, and Tom Macken, a senior associate in Bird & Bird’s Sydney office,...
Oct 17, 2022 The Australian anti-siphoning scheme – will the latest Government review lead to the long-overdue reform? By Rich Hawkins Thomas Green Last week the new Labor Government released a consultation paper to initiate their review of the anti-siphoning scheme in Australia. Many...
Aug 26, 2022 Fork in the road: Australian internet defamation law reform options released By Sophie Dawson On 12 August 2022, the Meeting of Attorneys-General (MAG) released options for statutory reform of Australia’s defamation laws to deal...
Jul 12, 2022 Secondary ticket sellers on alert as Australia’s ‘green and gold decade’ of major sports events approaches By Rich Hawkins Tom Macken On 18 May 2022, the Federal Court of Australia dismissed an appeal by online ticket reseller, viagogo AG, against the Federal Court’s...
May 26, 2022 Serious harm considered again in Newman v Whittington [2022] NSWSC 249 By Julie Cheeseman In February 2022, the Supreme Court of New South Wales became the first Australian superior Court to consider the Australian ‘serious...
Dec 08, 2021 “This is serious, Mum”: Serious harm considered in Rader v Haines By MediaWrites Editorial Julie Cheeseman Sophie Dawson A recent decision of the District Court of New South Wales is one of the first cases where an Australian Court has considered the...
Oct 25, 2021 Australian privacy overhaul on the horizon with the release of online privacy draft legislation and reform discussion paper By Sophie Dawson Emma Croft Changes to Australian laws proposed on 25 October 2021 will have a significant effect on media, social media and online businesses who...
Sep 09, 2021 Case Update: Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd; Nationwide News Pty Limited; Australian News Channel Pty Ltd v Voller [2021] HCA 27 By Sophie Dawson Julie Cheeseman On 8 September 2021, Australia’s High Court dismissed an appeal by three Australian media organisations, finding that they were the...
Aug 18, 2021 Ransom-where is your money going? Introduction of the Ransomware Payments Bill 2021 (Cth) By Sophie Dawson Emma Croft A number of high profile media and entertainment businesses have been the victims of ransomware attacks in recent years. In Australia, a...
Aug 12, 2021 Case Update: Epic Games, Inc v Apple Inc: choice of forum clauses and public policy grounds – Epic Games, Inc v Apple Inc [2021] FCAFC 122 By Sophie Dawson Emma Croft On 9 July 2021, the Federal Court of Australia overturned a decision to award a stay based on an exclusive jurisdiction/choice of forum...
Jul 05, 2021 A National ‘Reset’ Begins: Defamation law reforms come into effect in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and QLD By James Hoy Sophie Dawson On 1 July 2021, new defamation laws come into effect in New South Wales (NSW), Victoria, South Australia and Queensland (QLD). These are...
Jun 09, 2021 A ‘GREEN AND GOLD DECADE’: THE IMPORTANCE OF AUSTRALIA’S MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK By Tom Macken Rich Hawkins Thomas Green In May 2021, Rugby Australia announced its bid, supported by the Commonwealth Government, to host the 2027 Rugby World Cup. This...