Sports score shorts

Sarah Attwood and Vyara Yordanova are joined by Pete Hackleton, partner and head of sports and entertainment at Saffery, to discuss UK image rights in sport, specifically football, from legal and tax perspectives. They explain image rights as monetisable personal characteristics and how clubs and athletes use image rights companies, requiring proper assignment documents, valuation, audit trails an...

Welcome to Sports score shorts, the Mills & Reeve new sports law podcast. In episode two, employment partner Richard Santy and principal associate Jameel Mann explore how the Employment Rights Act 2025 could reshape disputes in football. They break down key changes to unfair dismissal rights, uncapped compensation and tribunal access, and what this means for managers’, players’ and coaching st...

Welcome to "Sports score shorts", a new podcast from Mills & Reeve.   We address live industry issues and shine a light on the legal and regulatory reality behind the headlines. We'll be covering a range of commercial, corporate, regulatory, and contentious topics across a range of sports in our podcast series.    In this first episode, we thought we'd kick off with something really topical –...