Sport

At work in arenas at home and abroad. In 1992 Harper Macleod took the lead in Scotland by becoming the first legal firm here to create a team specialising specifically in sports law. On the back of that perceptive initiative, our reputation has widened and strengthened: we're now retained by leading sports competitors and organisations in both the domestic and international arenas.

"A royal flush of governing bodies". That's how Chambers UK describes our portfolio of top sporting clients. We are the exclusive retained advisors to the Scottish Premier League and advise the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) on all issues relating to sports discipline and regulation. Our clients include Celtic FC and the European Rugby Cup. We advise several senior football and rugby clubs, as well as a number of Scotland's leading professional sportspeople.

Discipline is increasingly high profile. e have recently acted in a number of disciplinary and regulatory cases attracting major publicity. We represented the British Lion and Scotland's most capped rugby player Scott Murray following his red card in the Six Nations championships in 2006, Celtic FC's former manager Martin O'Neill before UEFA's control and disciplinary body and represented the British skier Alain Baxter in his appeal against being stripped of his bronze slalom medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. 

Harper Macleod is a founder member of the UK's premier legal grouping, The British Association for Sport and Law (BASAL). Our Professor Lorne Crerar is Discipline Chairman of the European Rugby Cup and Six Nations. Professor Crerar and Rod McKenzie both sit on the Judicial Panel of the International Rugby Board.