Weightmans Sports Law Seminar

Following the success of Weightmans' inaugural sports law seminar last year, we are delighted to invite you to a further seminar. This year our experts will explore a range of topics covering personal accident insurance, cyber risks, and an update on Martyn's Law.

Speaker sessions

Philip Tracey - Personal accident policies

This session will explore what constitutes an “accident”, violent, accidental, external, and visible means; causation-proximate, sole, immediate, and independent cause; disease/neurodegenerative disease and related exclusions. The interaction with liability policies will also be covered.

Stephanie Wilson - Concussion Litigation

This session will explore the current landscape of concussion litigation, including the risks associated with concussion and participants’ consent to those risks. It will consider whether the risk extends beyond contact sports, alongside key questions around the nature of the injury, causation and when the injury occurred.

Elliott Kenton - Martyn’s Law and the sports sector

Martyn’s Law encompasses a number of legal obligations which will be brought into law by the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act. It is estimated that the sports sector will be one of the most impacted by the Act, with sports facilities falling within public accessible premises and/or qualifying events. During this session we will look at how the Act applies to the sports sector, focusing on the legal obligations and implications of the Act, and the relevant procedures and actions to take in the event of a terror attack for those that operate publicly accessible premises.

Tom Spring - Equine

Tom will discuss the elements required to establish the statutory defences under s.5(1) and s.5(2) to claims brought under s.2(2) of the Animals Act 1971. His session will include practical guidance on what kinds of behaviour might render a claimant wholly at fault or where a claimant might be considered to have consented to the risk of damage, including by reference to established case law and with an eye on where the landscape of such defences may change in the future.

Register your interest to attend

Join us, at our London office. This event is free of charge and a selection of refreshments will be available for you after the session.