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Title Sport, the Law, Regulation and Integrity
Code ULMS608
Coordinator Mr N Coster
Strategy, IB and Entrepreneurship
Neil.Coster@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2021-22 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 10

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):
 

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on a required basis:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on an optional basis:
 

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 4

 12

       8

4

 28
Timetable (if known) 60 mins X 1 totaling 4
  		180 mins X 1 totaling 12
  		      120 mins X 1 totaling 8
60 mins X 1 totaling 4
  		 
Private Study 72
TOTAL HOURS 100

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Group exercise There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): 1  60 minutes    30       
Individual written assignment There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): 1  -2500 words    70       

Aims

To introduce students to the ways in which the thoroughbred horseracing industry is subject to legal regulation;

To introduce students to the role of independent regulation and arbitration;

To enable students to identify, understand and analyse the processes and forces of law in this area.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) An understanding of and ability to appraise the basic principles of UK and European law and the impact of legal and regulatory processes and forces upon the Thoroughbred Horseracing industry.

(LO2) Understand and interpret husbandry and legal issues in breeding and racing.

(LO3) Applicability of and ability to appraise property and personal insurance, employer’s and public liability insurance and property transactions.

(LO4) How to access, understand and utilise primary legal material.

(LO5) Evaluate the relationship between horseracing and gambling, analysing the implications of the relevant legislation and ethical considerations.

(LO6) An ability to critically reflect on governance issues at stake in the international Thoroughbred Horseracing businesses. Including the relationship between Thoroughbred Horseracing, the media, owners, trainers, the gaming and betting industry and other key stakeholders.

(LO7) The ability to appraise the importance of branding, marketing and intellectual property in the Thoroughbred Horseracing business.

(S1) Adaptability. Students will develop an awareness of how the law changes the Thoroughbred Horseracing industry.

(S2) Problem-solving skills. Students will be required to apply law to scenario based problems.

(S3) Commercial awareness. Students will develop an awareness of commercial and animal welfare pressures on the Thoroughbred Horseracing industry.

(S4) Teamwork skills. Students will develop team working skills through group work in scenario discussion; group exercise.

(S5) Organisation skills. Students will be required to meet assessment deadlines.

(S6) Communication skills. Students will develop communication skills via assignment presentation and negotiation exercise.

(S7) IT skills. Students will develop IT skills via assignment presentation.

(S8) International Awareness. Students will develop an awareness of the impact of EU and international law and regulation.

(S9) Lifelong learning skills. Students will develop lifelong learning skills via assignment presentation and negotiation exercise.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

2 hour online asynchronous learning per week x 4 weeks
1 hour online synchronous lecture per week x 4 weeks
3 hour face-to-face seminar every week x 4 weeks
1 hour face-to-face peer-to-peer learning every week (unscheduled) x 4 weeks
Self-directed learning x 72 hours

Self-directed learning hours will be used by students to ensure that requisite reading is undertaken, preparation for online classes and presentations, and for completion of assessed and non-assessed work that will aid and enhance the students’ own learning experience.

Syllabus
 

Horseracing and the law: the most important issues, rules and regulations;

International sports law, 'soft' and 'hard' law;

The contract of employment and the restraint of trade doctrine;

Equal opportunities, discrimination and secure healthy working environments;

EU sports policy and competition law and tackling "grey" and illegal gambling, especially in online markets;

Legal issues in ownership, breeding, training and racing;

Intellectual property, image rights;

Racing and the law, arbitration, challenging the decisions of governing bodies;

Protecting children and vulnerable people from gambling related harm;

Competition law and related regulation, especially as it affects the gambling industry;

Group exercise.

Recommended Texts
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