Touchlines and guidelines: The lord advocate's response to sportsfield violence

Criminal Law Review

Volumn 1997, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-45

  James, Mark ^a   Gardiner, Simon ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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1. For further discussion of the Instructions see S. Miller, "Criminal Law and Sport in Scotland" Sport and the Law Journal Vol. 4(2) 40.
2. E. Grayson, preface to Sport and the Law (2nd ed.) at p.viii.
3. Ferguson v. Normand [1995] SCCR 770.
4. The length of the sentence reflects the fact that Ferguson was on probation for a previous offence of violence.
5. This ban was subsequently overturned following a Judicial Review of the SFA's disciplinary rules, Ferguson v. The Scottish Football Association Ltd.
6. The Daily Telegraph, March 25, 1996.
7. The Times, November 13, 1995.
8. The Daily Telegraph, October 17, 1995.
9. Para. 1.
10. Para. 2.
11. R. v. Bradshaw (1878) 14 Cox C.C. 83, at 84, per Bramwell L.J.
12. Para. 2.
13. Para. 6 (emphasis added).
14. Collins v. Willcock [1984] 1 W.L.R. 1172.
15. Para. 6.
16. [1995] S.C.C.R. 770.
17. The playing culture of a sport is the way of playing the game as accepted by the players and officials. For a more detailed discussion of this concept see, S. Gardiner, "The Law and the Sportsfield", [1994] Crim.L.R. 513; G. Williams, "Consent and Public Policy" [1962] Crim.L.R. 74.
18. The playing culture of a sport is the way of playing the game as accepted by the players and officials. For a more detailed discussion of this concept see, S. Gardiner, "The Law and the Sportsfield", [1994] Crim.L.R. 513; G. Williams, "Consent and Public Policy" [1962] Crim.L.R. 74.
19. This is where the tackled player is lifted off the ground and forced into the ground head or neck first.
20. For instance, the on-ice fight between Durham Wasps and Humberside Hawks players, The Times, March 11, 1996.
21. The Independent, December 4, 1992.
22. See n.1.
23. R. v. Lloyd [1989] Crim.L.R. 513.