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Author Gibson, Andy

Title Sports Law in Australia / Andy Gibson
Edition Fourth edition
Published Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands : Wolters Kluwer Law, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages)
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Author -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- General Introduction -- 1. Statistics -- 2. Institutions -- I. Meeting of Sport and Recreation Ministers (MSRM) -- II. Committee of Australian Sport and Recreation Officials (CASRO) -- III. CASRO Research Group (CSRG) -- IV. Sport Australia -- V. Australian Institute of Sport -- VI. National Sporting Organisations -- VII. Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) -- 3. Sources of Sports Law -- Part I. Organisation of Sports -- Chapter 1. General Issues
Chapter 2. Sport and Criminal Law -- 1. What Is Sports Field Violence? -- 2. The Relevance of the Rules of the Game in Law -- 3. Standard of Proof -- 4. Common Sporting Criminal Offences -- I. Criminal Assault -- II. Manslaughter -- III. Accessory Before the Fact -- 5. Defences -- I. Consent -- II. Self-Defence -- III. Mitigating Circumstances -- 6. Spectator Violence -- 7. Statutory Compensation Schemes -- 8. Sporting Integrity -- I. What Is Sports Integrity? -- II. What Is Match-Fixing? -- 9. National Integrity of Sport Unit (Sport Integrity Australia from 2020)
10. Criminal Conduct Involving Match-Fixing -- 11. Crowd Safety and Conduct -- Chapter 3. Sport and Tort Law -- 1. Negligence -- I. Duty of Care -- A. Foreseeability -- B. Sports Administrators -- C. Officials and Coaches -- D. School Age Children -- II. Breach of Duty: Standard of Care -- A. Standard of Care -- III. Causation -- A. Factual Causation -- B. Remoteness of Damage/Scope of Liability -- IV. Defences -- A. Voluntary Assumption of Risk (volenti non fit injuria) -- B. Contributory Negligence -- C. Statutory Defences -- D. Obvious Risk -- E. Inherent Risk -- F. Recreational Activity
v. Damages -- VI. Obligations of Sports Participants and Officials -- VII. Coaches, Instructors, Supervisors and Medical Staff -- VIII. Officials and Participants -- IX. Participants and Spectators -- 2. Occupier's Liability -- I. Obligations of Occupiers and Event Organisers to Participants -- II. Obligations of Occupier to Spectators and Other Non-participants -- III. The Position of Spectators Who Pay to Enter -- 3. Children -- 4. Vicarious Liability -- I. Employee or Independent Contractor? -- II. Liability of Independent Contractors -- III. Non-delegable Duty
5. Exclusion from Liability -- 6. Trespass to the Person -- I. Children -- II. Remedies -- 7. Nuisance -- I. Public Nuisance -- II. Private Nuisance -- III. Defences and Remedies -- Part II. Sport and Status -- Chapter 1. Public Regulation -- 1. Employment Law -- I. The Contract of Employment -- A. Applicability of the Implied Terms of the Employment Contract and Industrial Statutes -- B. Vicarious Liability -- C. Restraint of Trade -- D. Workers' Compensation -- E. The NSW Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978 -- F. Suspension and Stand-Downs -- G. Termination -- H. Frustration
Notes II. Employment and Working with Children
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2023)
Subject Sports -- Law and legislation -- Australia
Athletes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia
Athletes -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Sports -- Law and legislation.
Australia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789403541402
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9789403541419
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