Responsible gambling practices are integral to consumer protection measures. The current regulations in Nigeria focus on maintaining fair gaming practices, financial transparency, and responsible gambling.
Without a valid contract, a professional athlete remains an amateur. There are standard contracts that athletes usually sign, although the actual terms may differ from one athlete to another, depending on the negotiation between an athlete and the club/organization.
‘The Court has for a long time now made it absolutely clear that this sort of violence on the field of play cannot and will not be tolerated. And for this kind of off-the-ball incident, a custodial sentence is inevitable’.
Liability may equally arise against a match official who fails to keep adequate control of the game, thus occasioning injustice or unfairness, or in extreme events, injuries may occur from the failure of the sport’s official to keep fairly and/or strictly to the rules. In the same vein, governing bodies may be held liable if they have failed to supply adequate guidance, safety procedures, and apparatus.
Sports are now more important to the general public than they have ever been, so effective dispute resolution is essential. Arbitration is a good strategy. It is quick, professional and diverse. Due to the rise of disputes, litigation is not a good method of dispute resolution.
Sport and law seem a world apart to casual sportsmen and women playing their weekend games of tennis, golf, swimming, or even horse riding, oblivious of the mechanism of the laws governing their activities. The truth is that many key areas of overlap directly affect both participants and administrators. As sports have become an everyday affair in the lives of millions of Nigerians and billions of individuals globally, the staging, organizing and execution of major events takes governing bodies deeper into the realms of law, governance, finance etc.
Football disputes happen in a lot of matches and settling all of them in Court is counterproductive and mostly leads to long and arduous cases that may not be resolved in time, and cause damage to the parties’ careers and financial situation.
This is more so because Sports law cuts across many areas of law, and the administration of justice in that regard requires a new approach which will be a summation of all these areas of the law. It is in this regard that the arbitration process is so far the best approach for resolving disputes in the sports industry.
