The Law Weighs In: Closing Submissions in Essendon v ASADA trial
Closing submissions are the last opportunity for the parties to persuade the judge that their case should prevail. The stakes have risen, the veneer of gentility…
Report Day 3: Essendon Football Club & Hird v ASADA
Kate Houghton, lawyer and legal reporter, reports in this post on the cross-examination of remaining witnesses on the final day of trial. Closing submissions will be the…
Report Day 2: Essendon Football Club & Hird v ASADA
Lawyer and legal reporter Kate Houghton has prepared a report of Day 2 of the trial into whether the Australian Sports Anti Doping Authority (ASADA) acted…
Losing ground? How the evidence fared in Essendon v ASADA litigation
This post analyses the effect of cross-examination on the parties’ evidence in Day 2 of the Federal Court of Australia into the legality of the Australian…
Report Day 1: Essendon Football Club & Hird v ASADA
Intrepid lawyer and legal reporter, Kate Houghton, attended Court today and prepared a report of the first day of the trial into whether the Australian Sports…
Reading the Tea Leaves: Essendon v ASADA Opening Submissions
This post analyses the oral opening submissions from Day 1 of the trial between Essendon Football Club, James Hird and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA),…
Is it time to move on from a WADA Code which is ‘one size fits all’?
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code has had plenty of recent press in Australia courtesy of its role, albeit indirect, in the Essendon supplements saga. Yet…
Essendon v ASADA: The rule of law and role of legal fairness
At the heart of claims by Essendon Football Club and James Hird against the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) is a perceived lack of procedural fairness.…
The battle lines are drawn: What ASADA admits & denies in its Defence
Essendon Football Club, a professional Australian Football League (AFL) team, and its suspended coach James Hird have instituted proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against…
Who are the team sponsors of 2014 Tour de France, and why?
Debating every aspect of Le Tour is one of life’s joys each July, whether standing in pouring rain next to saturated pavé as the peleton nears,…
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