The Australian & New Zealand Sports Law Association
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2024 ANZSLA Conference
23 to 25 October - Sydney, New South Wales |
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Dear @{aspediacrm-person-firstname},
ANZSLA is excited to announce that, for the first time, this year's conference will include a mock arbitration using National Sports Tribunal procedures. The session will be introduced by Michelle Gallen (CEO, NST) and the participants will be Venetia Bennett (arbitrator), Jon Taylor KC (advocate) and Houda Younan SC (advocate). The subject matter of the arbitration will be a sporting dispute of a type which is commonly heard by the NST, and will include presentation of evidence and arguments, cross-examination of witnesses and closing submissions (amongst other things).
This year's conference dinner will be held at the iconic and stunning Meers Hall at the NSW Art Gallery.
The exciting conference and social programme is available via the following LINK. REGISTER now and take advantage of early bird registration fees!
Kind regards, ANZSLA |
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Michelle Gallen, Chief Executive Officer, National Sports Tribunal
Michelle commenced as CEO of the National Sports Tribunal in September 2023. She brings leadership experience in both government and sport, including as the President of Swimming Australia, and seven years as a senior executive within Queensland Government. Her professional background includes roles with the Australian Sports Commission, Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority. She has been a member of the Australian Anti-Doping Rule Violation Committee, the World Aquatics Masters Technical Committee, Chair of Selectors, a Director of Triathlon Australia and Chair of the ACT Minister’s Sport and Recreation Advisory Council. She holds a PhD in international sports law.
Michelle has spent most of her life in and around sport and has represented Australia in two sports, swimming and triathlon. These days she continues to swim regularly with both age group and Masters squads and keenly advocates for the benefits of lifetime activity.
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Venetia Bennett, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Venetia is a commercial barrister at the Western Australian Bar who practises in the sports industry in disputes, integrity matters and investigations. Venetia has been involved as a member or chair of international, national and state sports tribunals and panels for nearly two decades, and was appointed as an inaugural member of the National Sports Tribunal in 2020. |
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Jonathan Taylor KC, Partner, Bird & Bird UK
Jon is a member of Bird & Bird’s International Sports Group, a Sport Resolutions arbitrator, and co-editor (with Adam Lewis KC) of Sport: Law and Practice (Bloomsbury, 4th Edition 2021), the sports lawyers’ bible.
He has represented a host of sports governing bodies in landmark cases before the CAS and domestic sports tribunals. In 2016, he chaired WADA’s Independent Observer team at the Rio Olympics. From November 2016 to January 2020, he chaired WADA's Compliance Review Committee, an independent Standing Committee that reports to WADA's ExCo and Foundation Board on issues relating to Code compliance by Signatories. From November 2018 to January 2021, he chaired the independent External Review Commission that investigated allegations of wrongdoing by the International Biathlon Union's former president and secretary-general and helped the IBU strengthen its constitution to avoid repetition. In 2019 and 2020, he conducted a review of the governance of the English Football League, and separately a review into the circumstances leading to the termination of Bury FC's membership of the League in August 2018. He is currently the chair of the Advisory Council of the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit, which administers a comprehensive anti-doping and medication control programme for US horse-racing.
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| Houda Younan SC, Barrister, Selborne Wentworth Chambers Houda was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2006, and the New South Wales Bar in 2007. Houda was appointed Senior Counsel in 2020.
Prior to admission, Houda worked a senior legal officer in the Office of International law in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in Canberra, which included cases before the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.
Houda was formerly an associate to Chief Justice Spigelman of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Houda graduated with a BA/ LLB from the University of Sydney, both with first class honours, and a LLM from Cambridge University, under the tutelage of the late Judge James Crawford of the International Court of Justice, where she was awarded first class honours and the Clive Parry Prize for International Law. Houda appears in the High Court and Federal Court of Australia, as well as State and Territory Supreme Courts, at both trial and appellate levels. She also appears in national tribunals, international courts of arbitration, and commissions of inquiry. Her clients include Commonwealth, State, Territory and foreign governments, as well as private entities.
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CONFERENCE DINNER: MEERS HALL, NSW ART GALLERY |
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This beautiful space is in Naala Badu, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new north building, the hall features timber flooring and floor-to-ceiling windows with views out to the sculpture garden and to the adjacent sculpture gallery and Atrium. A perfect place to enjoy a lovely evening with your colleagues. |
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The 2024 ANZSLA Conference is generously supported by: |
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