President: Ian Hunt


Firm: Young Hunter

Address: Guardian Assurance Building 79-83 Hereford Street Christchurch New Zealand

Phone: +64 3 3793 880

Fax: +64 3 3693 632

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Ian was elected to the ANZSLA Board in 2005 and was elected President in 2007. Ian is the first ever New Zealand President. 

Ian is a litigation partner with Young Hunter in Christchurch specialising in insurance and medico/legal litigation, trusts, and sports law. Ian completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Sports Law at King’s College, London, in 1998. Ian’s sports law practice involves organisations and individuals in a wide variety of sporting codes in areas such as doping, governance, selection disputes and contracts. Ian is an Association Commissioner for New Zealand Cricket, and is active in a variety of sports as a participant and administrator.

Secretary: Venetia Stewart

Name: Venetia Stewart
Firm: Middletons
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Venetia Stewart is a lawyer in Middletons' dispute resolution group in Perth.  Although originally from Perth, Venetia moved to Melbourne in 2006 to undertake a Master of Business (Sport Management) at Deakin University and to be closer to Australia's epicentre of sport.  She returned to WA in 2009, and has remained active and interested in the sports industry despite the State's focus on its resources.  Venetia has acted for a range of sporting clients, including for the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships, Tennis Australia and Football West.  She has also chaired an investigation for Cycling Australia and is a chair of the Football West disciplinary tribunal. 
 
Venetia has been a member of ANZSLA since 2006.  She chaired the 2008 Melbourne conference organising committee and has been a Board member since 2008.

Name: Andy Gibson
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Address: Unit 2, 2-10 Weedons Road, Nerang, QLD 4211
Phone: 07 5596 3666
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Andy Gibson is currently lecturing in Law at Southern Cross University (SCU) at its Beachside Campus (adjacent to the Gold Coast Airport) and was formerly a Senior Lecturer at the Law School at Griffith University on the Gold Coast Campus. Andy currently teaches International Business Law, Employment and Industrial Relations Law and Law of Torts at SCU and has taught, amongst other things, Sports Law to undergraduate law and sports mangement students. He has also been involved in running Sports Law seminars around for SCORS, the Northern Territory Department of Sport and local councils. He is the foundation editor of the CCH looseleaf publication Australian Sports Law, the Australian author for the International Encyclopedia of Laws Tab on Australian Sports Law, an author for Lexis-Nexis Halsburys Laws of Australia Tabs on Australian Employment Law and Queensland Industrial Law, as well as a number of texts on Business Law and the Law of Torts.

Name: Tony O'Reilly
Firm: Kennedys (Australasia) Pty Ltd
Address: Level 31, Citigroup Centre, 2 Park Street Sydney NSW 2000
Phone: 61 2 8215 5902
Fax: 61 2 8246 6602
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Tony is a partner of Kennedys in Sydney and has been a member of ANZSLA for ten years. 

He specialises in Sports Law and practices in a diverse range of areas including intellectual property, doping, selection disputes, sponsorship and governance. 

He represents the National Rugby League as well as other national sporting organisations, government bodies, athletes and athlete advisers. He is also a Disciplinary and Grievance Arbitrator for Football Federation Australia.

Name: Paul David
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Address: Level 3, The Annex 41 Shortland Street Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: +64-9-373 9870
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Paul David B.A (Hons), L.L.M (Cantab) is a barrister in Eldon Chambers Auckland. He has over 25 years experience as counsel in civil and criminal litigation. He is admitted as a barrister in New Zealand, Australia and England and Wales. He acts as counsel to Drug Free Sport New Zealand, the national anti-doping organisation in New Zealand. 

Paul has had an interest in legal issues affecting sport throughout his legal career from the days when he first tried to answer team-mates’ legal questions. He has advised many sporting organisations and athletes and has appeared as counsel in a wide range of disputes in the sports law area, both in the courts and before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the Sports Disputes Tribunal of New Zealand. Paul has also written widely on legal issues affecting sport, including a recent text – A Guide to the World Anti-Doping Code – published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. Many years ago he was awarded a Cambridge Blue for rugby. He remains interested in a wide range of sports and continues to compete in open water Masters swimming. For more information, see, http://www.pauldavid.co.nz.

Name: Martin Ross
Firm: Browne & Co
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BEc, LLB (Hons), LLM (Commercial Law). Admitted as Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court, Victoria and High Court of Australia since 1997. 

Martin is a Director of Browne & Co, Solicitors and Consultants. Martin has considerable experience working for sporting organisations across a wide range of commercial and commercial litigation matters. In the last 12 months, Martin has advised: Australian Football League (“AFL”); Netball Australia; Cricket Australia; Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (“ASADA”). 

In addition, Martin acts for a number of state and local sporting organisations, including the Victorian Country Football League, Victorian Athletics League and various local football organisations. 

Some of the high profile sports related matters that Martin has worked on include: sale of the AFL’s television rights; sale of the AFL’s new media (internet and mobile) rights; sale of Netball Australia’s television rights; investigations relating to off-field player conduct, including the investigation by the Honourable Justice Gillard into the West Coast Eagles, its players and officials; drafting standard form playing contracts for Australian based teams for the ANZ Championship; litigation in the Supreme Court of Victoria against The Age newspaper in 2006, where the AFL and AFL Players’ Association were successful in restraining publication of the names of players who had allegedly tested positive under the AFL’s Illicit Drugs Policy; work relating to the establishment of further AFL franchise clubs; litigation in the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2007 against Seven Network in relation to disclosure of confidential information relating to players sourced from stolen medical records; the C7 litigation in the Federal Court of Australia. 

In additional to his professional activities, Martin is currently undertaking part-time business administration studies at the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne.

Name: Amelia Lynch
Firm: Landers and Rogers
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Amelia is a Senior Associate working at Lander & Rogers in its Sports Business Group. Amelia has developed a specialist practice in sports law and has expertise in the application of the law to not-for-profit organisations, for-profit companies and government agencies. Amelia's past experience includes working as a commercial lawyer and in investigations roles based in Melbourne and London. 

Amelia's clients include international, national and state sporting organisations, professional sports clubs, universities, government sport and recreation departments, event companies and sport and recreation facility managers. 

Amelia is a committee member of the Law Institute of Victoria’s Sports Law Committee and has been a member of the Eastern Football League and Ringwood District Cricket Association disciplinary tribunals. Amelia regularly presents to various groups across Australia, including presentations to sports administrators, government bodies and community groups and lectures for the World Academy of Sport (Manchester University).

Stuart Corbishley is a sports and commercial lawyer who has advised a variety of sports organisations on a range of broadcasting, sponsorship, intellectual property and other commercial issues arising in the context of major international sports events.  At Allens Arthur Robinson, Stuart managed a broad commercial practice focused on advising clients within the sports industry, including Commonwealth Games Federation, Australian Olympic Committee, V8 Supercars Australia, Sports & Entertainment Limited, AVP Pro Beach Volleyball and Ultimate Fighting Championship.  In 2009, Stuart was appointed Head of Legal of the Organising Committee for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, and has subsequently worked as a consultant to Cricket Australia in establishing The Big Bash League, the new domestic Twenty20 competition.  Recently, Stuart was appointed by Football Federation Australia to head up the legal team for the AFC Asian Cup 2015 to be held in Australia in January 2015.