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Littleton Sports Law Essay Competition Winners 2024

15.07.24

Littleton is delighted to announce the winners of our 2024 Sports Law Essay Competition.

This year’s Competition invited essays on the following title: “Sport participation is a privilege, not a right”. To what extent is the European Court of Human Rights’ interference with competition rules and sports regulations good for sports governance? 

The Competition winners were as follows:

First Place: Francesca Jackson, Lancaster University

Second Place: Puja Pragnesh Patel, Training Contract accepted at Penningtons Manches Cooper

Third Place: Oliver Pedlingham, University of York

Honourable mentions: Georgina Morton, Newcastle University and Kerry O’Shea, University of Law

The Littleton Sports Law Group, many of whom were involved in the judging of the Competition, were impressed with the extremely high standard of this year’s entries. The winning essays can be found below. Littleton would like to thank all entrants for their efforts and offers its congratulations to the winners.

The Littleton Sports Law Essay Competition remains unique at the London Bar, and continues to attract exceptional essays from university students, LPC and Bar students and trainee solicitors. Littleton leads in the field of sports law and regulation, and was recently named “Sports Law Chambers of the Year”. For more information on Littleton’s Sports Law Group, click here.

Winning Essay 1

Winning Essay 2

Winning Essay 3

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