Fair Play: Fighting to Protect the Spirit of Sport - The Memoirs of a Sports Lawyer

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Jonathan Taylor KC (Bird & Bird's International Sports Group, UK)

Fair Play

Name: Fair Play
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ISBN: 9781526535238

Fighting to Protect the Spirit of Sport - The Memoirs of a Sports Lawyer

Jonathan Taylor KC (Bird & Bird's International Sports Group, UK)

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Bloomsbury Professional
25 June 2026

Memoirs; Sport & the law

A sports governing body owes a duty to its athletes and fans alike to ensure that the playing field is level and the outcome is determined solely by the athletes’ natural talents, skill and effort, and not by confounding factors such as performance-enhancing drugs or equipment, or insuperable natural advantages in age, sex, or weight.

Jonathan Taylor KC, with his unparalleled experience in the field over the past 28 years, in particular as lead advocate on some of the most prominent and important sports law cases ever fought, provides a detailed insider account of those cases as a means of illustrating the practical, ethical and legal issues confronted by regulators who are seeking to protect what makes sport such a unique and compelling spectacle.

Jonathan has a range of stories to tell that give us a fascinating insight into what is really involved in fighting for the integrity of sport. These include prosecuting the spot-fixing case against the Pakistani cricketers in 2010, helping the sports movement respond to the state-sponsored doping scheme in Russia from 2011 to 2014, policing the boundaries of male and female competition categories in the Caster Semenya case in 2019, and litigating whether double amputee Blake Leeper had an unfair performance advantage over able-bodied athletes.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Sports Law online service.

By: Jonathan Taylor KC (Bird & Bird's International Sports Group UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Professional
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781526535238
ISBN 10: 1526535238
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 June 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1 A Sound Foundation 2 Match Fixing: ‘A Mortal Danger to Sport’ 3 The Global Fight Against Doping in Sport: Enforcing the World Anti-Doping Code 4 State-Sponsored Doping 5 Caster Semenya v IAAF – ‘The sporting trial of the century’ 6 Technological Doping: When Does A Double Amputee Have An Unfair Performance Advantage? 7 Extra Time

Jonathan Taylor KC is a partner in Bird & Bird’s Sports Group in London. Over the past three decades, he has advised governing bodies, event organisers and others active in the sector, across all major sports both nationally and internationally, on a range of commercial, regulatory and contentious issues, including commercial disputes, investigations, challenges to regulatory decisions, and enforcement of sport rules and regulations in disciplinary proceedings and appeals. An experienced advocate, Jonathan appears regularly before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, as well as a range of internal sports tribunals. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (now KC) in 2017 in recognition of the quality of his advocacy.