1st Edition

Sport, Physical Recreation and the Law

By Hazel Hartley Copyright 2009
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

It is important for anybody involved in sport and physical recreation to be aware of the legal context in which their activity takes place, to develop an understanding of their legal responsibilities and to know what might happen if something goes wrong. Sport, Physical Recreation and the Law is the first textbook on this difficult subject for students and practitioners in sport and physical... Read more

1. Resources at Your Fingertips: A Guide to Legal Sources, Databases, and Organizations  2. Taking Reasonable Care? Principles of Negligence in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation  3. Defences Against Negligence: Volenti, Contributory Negligence and Two Rugby Cases  4. Sport Violence and Criminal Assault: A Socio-Legal Perspective  5. Discrimination, Harassment and Child Protection in Sport and Physical Recreation  6. Safe in our Hands? Risk Management and Breaches of Health and Safety: Learning From Cases and Incidents  7. Causing Death: An Overview of Selected Manslaughter Cases  8. Natural Justice Principles, Sport Disciplinaries and Key Doping Cases  9. Unfinished Business? Legal Reform on Offences Against the Person: Implications for Sado-Masochism, Sports, Hazing and Cage-Fighting

Biography

Hazel Hartley is a Principal Lecturer and research activist in Sport, Law and Ethics at Leeds Metropolitan University and a former Higher Education Academy Subject Specialist in Sport and the Law. She has more than twenty-five years' experience teaching this subject to students and practitioners.

Although aimed predominantly at non lawyers, its 'user friendly' tried and tested basic information and guidance also has the potential to help law students struggling to cope with basic legal principles in an area of law they have an interest in rather than just one they need to know about. Yvonne Willams The Cambrian Law Review