Our Defence Barristor

[IsleworthRanger]

I heard on Saturday that the Barristor representing the club against the charges is to be ex QPR Director Nick De Marco though if confirmed or not I do not know

Before anyone asks I was not told this by Nico as I have not spoken to him for months so have not asked him what is going on and in his position I would expect him to be proffessional and not have told me anyway

On a slightly separate note the latest rumour on Saturday was that 6 of the 7 charges are about to be dropped which I am sure we all agree is one rumour we all want to be true but I will believe it when I see it confirmed

[BennyBoyRs]

Nick is a good lad. If it is him, rest assured he'll do his best to sort this mess out.

[IsleworthRanger]

Nick is a good lad. If it is him, rest assured he'll do his best to sort this mess out.

Well he is certainly the very best in his field for sports law so heres hoping he can get the result we all want if it is him

Strange that given the history between him and Briatore he could be so involved with the club again

[LBLOCK]

Exactly the news I'm sure many of us were fearing (the 1st part that is).

This is hardly "rolling out the big guns" in terms of the legal proffessions finest.
Also, it smacks yet again of the waiter and his cronies desperately floundering about again.

My fear that we are at the source of a great big river and are abouts to be sold down it is heightened yet again.

I just love following this club.

IN WARNOCK WE TRUST

[BennyBoyRs]

I thought they'd fallen out as well, but there you go.

[Ric-Roc]

Strange that given the history between him and Briatore he could be so involved with the club again

£££££'s

And rightly so. Was he connected with the club around the time of AF's signing? I'd imagine he would have intimate knowledge of the deal if that is the case which would be very much to our advantage.

[waterbuffalo]

Hope for the best.

[IsleworthRanger]

Exactly the news I'm sure many of us were fearing (the 1st part that is).

This is hardly "rolling out the big guns" in terms of the legal proffessions finest.
Also, it smacks yet again of the waiter and his cronies desperately floundering about again.

My fear that we are at the source of a great big river and are abouts to be sold down it is heightened yet again.

I just love following this club.

IN WARNOCK WE TRUST

Whatever your feelings towards him he is quite simply the best in the land in this kind of case and personally think we are lucky if true that he has agreed to help out

[bbedford]

Nick has considerable expertise within this area. He has advised and acted for a number of sporting organisations in commercial claims, disciplinary and doping hearings, injunctions against trespassers and ticket touts, claims concerning the interpretation of footballers’ and agents’ contracts and transfer fees, sports’ sponsorship cases, claims concerning football programmes and various other employment related claims. He regularly advises on the interpretation of and possible challenges to sports bodies’ rules. He has also been involved in a number of cases concerning the funding of athletes by sports governing bodies for events such as the Olympics.

As well as appearing in UK Courts and Tribunals he has represented international tennis stars in doping hearings before the International Tennis Federation, and football players before the FA, Premier League and Football League disciplinary and appeals bodies. He has been involved in various cases before the FIFA dispute resolution panel and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). In addition to appearing in numerous football tribunals he has prosecuted Rugby players on behalf of the Rugby Football Union before their internal disciplinary board and represented Rugby Union clubs before the same body, represented an appellant in English Cricket Board proceedings and represented the Lawn Tennis Association in an appeal by an umpire before the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel. He was previously appointed to sit as a judge by the British Board of Boxing Control in professional boxers’ doping appeals, and advised UK Athletics on their anti-doping contracts with athletes.

His clients have included Nike; Sports Governing Bodies including UK Sport, the Lawn Tennis Association, the Professional Footballer’s Association, the Rugby Football Union, The Welsh Rugby Union, The Ryder Cup Limited, Epsom Downs and Royal Ascot Racecourses, Jogathon, UK Athletics, and the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association; Football Clubs: Manchester City, Fulham, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Queens Park Rangers, West Ham United, Middlesborough, Swindon Town, Orient, Rotherham United, Yeovill Town and Salisbury City; Bristol Rugby Club, Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club; Football players: Andrew Cole, Gabriel Heinze, Adrian Mutu, John Obi Mikel, and Marcus Stewart: Formula 1 racing driver Narain Karthikiyan and Dunwoody Sports Marketing. He has also acted for a number of football agents and agencies in claims against high profile players (including Man City’s Elano Blumer, Newcastle Utd’s Geremi, Arsenal’s Nicholas Bendtner and JLoyd Samuel). In addition he successfully restrained a Premiership football club from changing its sponsorship arrangements through injunctive proceedings and acted for senior counsel for Bolton Wanderers in a high profile chancery division image rights case against Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka.

Nick was previously a Director of the Coca-Cola Championship football club, Queens Park Rangers FC (2007). He has a unique insight into, and all round experience of, the football industry including issues relating to football finance, sponsorship, employment law issues with players and managerial staff and regulation by the football governing bodies.

Nick is a former editor of the Sports Law Cases for the British Association of Sports Law journal and is a member of the Football Association Tackling Homophobia Advisory Group.

Current and recent work
Strata Sports marketing v Tottenham Hotspur FC (ongoing)
Nick is currently representing a football agency in high profile proceedings in the High Court against Spurs.
Fulham v West Ham United (ongoing, FAPL)
Along with Michael Beloff QC, Nick represents Fulhamn in arbitration proceedings against West Ham arising out of the “Tevez affair”.
Premier Rugby Ltd v X (A Premier Rugby club) (October 2010)
Nick represented the club in the first case arising out of the wages cap in Rugby.
Fleetwood Town FC v The Football Conference (before the FA Appeal Board, 21 April 2010)
Nick successfully represented the Football Conference at an appeal before the FA Appeals Board, on 21 April 2010, brought by Fleetwood Town Football club. The case concerned a challenge to fairness of the Conference’s decision to expunge the points of a club that had ceased to operate for financial reasons.
Bolton Wanderers v Nicolas Anelka (High Court 2009)
Nick represented the Premier League football club in a large image rights case against Chelsea’s Anelka.
Football Association v Charles Collymore (FA Disciplinary Commission, Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009)
Nick successfully defended the football agent against various charges in two separate hearings.
Azam v RFU (RFU Appeals Board, October 2009)
Nick successfully represented the RFU against an appeal by the Gloucester Premiership player from a ban for kicking the England captain during a game.
Mark Connolly v Wolverhampton Wanderers FC (FAPL Disciplinary Commission, Summer 2009)
Nick successfully represented Premier league club Wolves in a dispute about a player’s contract.
Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club v First Division of Rugby (RFU Competition Appeals Board, 6 May 2008)
Successfully represented rugby club in appeal against decision of the FDR not award points to a losing team where the winning team was in breach. The appeal was very important in that it highlighted important deficiencies and conflicts in the RFU rules.
Other cases
RFU v Bristol Rugby Club (RFU Disciplinary panel, 8 August 2007)
Nike v Tomas Rosicky (High Court (ChD) 9 August 2007)
Gabriel Heinze v Manchester United FC (Football Premier League Appeals Board, August 2007)
Fulham FC and Sheffield United FC v The Premier League (High Court, 13 July 2007)
Dartry Ltd v Narain Karthikiyan (High Court)
Rachel Potter v UK Athletics (County Court, May 2006)
Salisbury City v The Southern League (FA Appeal Committee, April 2006)
West Ham United FC v The Football Association (FA Appeal Committee, April 2006)
Rotherham United FC v Southend United FC (Football League, February 2006)
John Obi Mikel v Manchester United Football Club (FIFA Dispute Resolution Panel)
3 Players v International Tennis Federation
Ryder Cup Limited v Tickets2bThere.com (November 2005)
Epsom Downs Racecourse Limited v Horan (June 2005)
Adrian Mutu v Chelsea FC (January 2005)
Joe Royle v Manchester City Football Club (Court of Appeal, March 2005)
Enrique De Lucas Martinez v Chelsea FC (June 2005)
Andy Cole v The Football Association (14 October 2004)
Swindon FC v Neil Ruddock (December 2002)

[IsleworthRanger]

Bloody hell you typed that out quickly :drunk:

[WeAreQPR12]

gotta love wiki

[waterbuffalo]

gotta love cut and paste

I agree!

[BennyBoyRs]

Those sort of things don't matter, though. Someone connected with QPR will always spell disaster where many are concerned. Usually without knowing much on the subject.

There will always be some fans looking to put the boot in.

[James1979]

Nick has considerable expertise within this area. He has advised and acted for a number of sporting organisations in commercial claims, disciplinary and doping hearings, injunctions against trespassers and ticket touts, claims concerning the interpretation of footballers’ and agents’ contracts and transfer fees, sports’ sponsorship cases, claims concerning football programmes and various other employment related claims. He regularly advises on the interpretation of and possible challenges to sports bodies’ rules. He has also been involved in a number of cases concerning the funding of athletes by sports governing bodies for events such as the Olympics.

As well as appearing in UK Courts and Tribunals he has represented international tennis stars in doping hearings before the International Tennis Federation, and football players before the FA, Premier League and Football League disciplinary and appeals bodies. He has been involved in various cases before the FIFA dispute resolution panel and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). In addition to appearing in numerous football tribunals he has prosecuted Rugby players on behalf of the Rugby Football Union before their internal disciplinary board and represented Rugby Union clubs before the same body, represented an appellant in English Cricket Board proceedings and represented the Lawn Tennis Association in an appeal by an umpire before the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel. He was previously appointed to sit as a judge by the British Board of Boxing Control in professional boxers’ doping appeals, and advised UK Athletics on their anti-doping contracts with athletes.

His clients have included Nike; Sports Governing Bodies including UK Sport, the Lawn Tennis Association, the Professional Footballer’s Association, the Rugby Football Union, The Welsh Rugby Union, The Ryder Cup Limited, Epsom Downs and Royal Ascot Racecourses, Jogathon, UK Athletics, and the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association; Football Clubs: Manchester City, Fulham, Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Queens Park Rangers, West Ham United, Middlesborough, Swindon Town, Orient, Rotherham United, Yeovill Town and Salisbury City; Bristol Rugby Club, Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club; Football players: Andrew Cole, Gabriel Heinze, Adrian Mutu, John Obi Mikel, and Marcus Stewart: Formula 1 racing driver Narain Karthikiyan and Dunwoody Sports Marketing. He has also acted for a number of football agents and agencies in claims against high profile players (including Man City’s Elano Blumer, Newcastle Utd’s Geremi, Arsenal’s Nicholas Bendtner and JLoyd Samuel). In addition he successfully restrained a Premiership football club from changing its sponsorship arrangements through injunctive proceedings and acted for senior counsel for Bolton Wanderers in a high profile chancery division image rights case against Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka.

Nick was previously a Director of the Coca-Cola Championship football club, Queens Park Rangers FC (2007). He has a unique insight into, and all round experience of, the football industry including issues relating to football finance, sponsorship, employment law issues with players and managerial staff and regulation by the football governing bodies.

Nick is a former editor of the Sports Law Cases for the British Association of Sports Law journal and is a member of the Football Association Tackling Homophobia Advisory Group.

Current and recent work
Strata Sports marketing v Tottenham Hotspur FC (ongoing)
Nick is currently representing a football agency in high profile proceedings in the High Court against Spurs.
Fulham v West Ham United (ongoing, FAPL)
Along with Michael Beloff QC, Nick represents Fulhamn in arbitration proceedings against West Ham arising out of the “Tevez affair”.
Premier Rugby Ltd v X (A Premier Rugby club) (October 2010)
Nick represented the club in the first case arising out of the wages cap in Rugby.
Fleetwood Town FC v The Football Conference (before the FA Appeal Board, 21 April 2010)
Nick successfully represented the Football Conference at an appeal before the FA Appeals Board, on 21 April 2010, brought by Fleetwood Town Football club. The case concerned a challenge to fairness of the Conference’s decision to expunge the points of a club that had ceased to operate for financial reasons.
Bolton Wanderers v Nicolas Anelka (High Court 2009)
Nick represented the Premier League football club in a large image rights case against Chelsea’s Anelka.
Football Association v Charles Collymore (FA Disciplinary Commission, Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009)
Nick successfully defended the football agent against various charges in two separate hearings.
Azam v RFU (RFU Appeals Board, October 2009)
Nick successfully represented the RFU against an appeal by the Gloucester Premiership player from a ban for kicking the England captain during a game.
Mark Connolly v Wolverhampton Wanderers FC (FAPL Disciplinary Commission, Summer 2009)
Nick successfully represented Premier league club Wolves in a dispute about a player’s contract.
Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club v First Division of Rugby (RFU Competition Appeals Board, 6 May 2008)
Successfully represented rugby club in appeal against decision of the FDR not award points to a losing team where the winning team was in breach. The appeal was very important in that it highlighted important deficiencies and conflicts in the RFU rules.
Other cases
RFU v Bristol Rugby Club (RFU Disciplinary panel, 8 August 2007)
Nike v Tomas Rosicky (High Court (ChD) 9 August 2007)
Gabriel Heinze v Manchester United FC (Football Premier League Appeals Board, August 2007)
Fulham FC and Sheffield United FC v The Premier League (High Court, 13 July 2007)
Dartry Ltd v Narain Karthikiyan (High Court)
Rachel Potter v UK Athletics (County Court, May 2006)
Salisbury City v The Southern League (FA Appeal Committee, April 2006)
West Ham United FC v The Football Association (FA Appeal Committee, April 2006)
Rotherham United FC v Southend United FC (Football League, February 2006)
John Obi Mikel v Manchester United Football Club (FIFA Dispute Resolution Panel)
3 Players v International Tennis Federation
Ryder Cup Limited v Tickets2bThere.com (November 2005)
Epsom Downs Racecourse Limited v Horan (June 2005)
Adrian Mutu v Chelsea FC (January 2005)
Joe Royle v Manchester City Football Club (Court of Appeal, March 2005)
Enrique De Lucas Martinez v Chelsea FC (June 2005)
Andy Cole v The Football Association (14 October 2004)
Swindon FC v Neil Ruddock (December 2002)

Do you know what all that says to me....lazy

[The White City General]

I heard on Saturday that the Barristor representing the club against the charges is to be ex QPR Director Nick De Marco though if confirmed or not I do not know

Before anyone asks I was not told this by Nico as I have not spoken to him for months so have not asked him what is going on and in his position I would expect him to be proffessional and not have told me anyway

On a slightly separate note the latest rumour on Saturday was that 6 of the 7 charges are about to be dropped which I am sure we all agree is one rumour we all want to be true but I will believe it when I see it confirmed

You are ****ing kidding now I'm starting worry.