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May 2010

Player Contracts: Training compensation: ECJ ruling in Olivier Bernard case
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently ruled that football clubs can seek compensation for training young players, as long as that compensation is directly related to the club's cost in training that player. April Carr, an Associate in the EU & Competition team at Olswang LLP, examines the reasoning of the ECJ in Olympique Lyonnais SASP v Olivier Bernard and Newcastle United FC, and explains why the Fédération Française de Football's Charter breached the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

March 2010

Olswang advises XIX Commonwealth Games broadcaster
Olswang has recently advised long-standing client, SIS Live, on the contract to produce and broadcast the XIX Commonwealth Games in India later this year.

Olswang advises At The Races on the establishment of GBI Racing
GBI Racing will distribute British and Irish horseracing internationally and joint venture marks the first time that these two long-standing competitors have worked together