18 February 2022
The racist abuse meted out to talented cricketer Azeem Rafiq hit the headlines this year, and his evidence to a parliamentary committee portrayed ‘a sport in which a culture of humiliation, intimidation and racism, generally passed off by its proponents and practitioners as workplace banter, had been endemic for so many years that it ran through establishments such as Yorkshire County Cricket Club (Yorkshire) like the writing on a stick of Blackpool rock’, as Alastair Gillespie, partner at Horwich Farrelly, writes in this week’s NLJ
Gillespie, a member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers’ Abuse Sector Focus Team, asks what remedies may be available. He suggests vicarious liability may provide a legal remedy worth pursuing and explores how this would apply to Rafiq’s circumstances as well as to a group of ongoing cases being brought against Chelsea Football Club. He also takes a look at the governing body of cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board, which has been ‘widely castigated for its inertia’. What changes must take place? See here.
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