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Interviewed by SOFOOT, Maître Jean-Jacques BERTRAND returns to the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal of June 19, 2025 which ruled the reclassification as a permanent contract of Adrien Rabiot's employment contract with PSG.

Interviewed by ParisTurf a few days after the entry into force of the new regulation on the use of the whip in trotting, Maître Jean-Jacques BERTRAND had the opportunity to return to the legal issues linked to this reform in horse racing.

Interviewed by Le Figaro, Maître Jean-Jacques BERTRAND discusses the tax treatment of Olympic bonuses received by French athletes during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

According to the conclusions of the Advocate General of the CJEU in the Diarra case, the FIFA rules on transfers violate free movement, competition and professional freedom. If these conclusions were to be followed by the Court, it could lead to a reform of the FIFA RSTJ.

The DNCG Appeals Committee confirmed the decision taken by the Professional Clubs Control Committee which pronounced the administrative demotion of the Girondins de Bordeaux to National 1 (financial difficulties). What are the means of appeal to challenge this decision?

The law aimed at democratizing sport in France was adopted by the National Assembly on February 24, 2022. The text allows professional leagues to create a commercial company for the management and marketing of the rights to exploit the sporting events they organize

The bill relating to the regulation and protection of access to cultural and digital works adopted by the National Assembly at the end of October 2021 includes new provisions intended to fight more effectively against the illicit retransmission of sports events.

FIFA presented on September 10, 2021 the rules of procedure and operation of the Football Court. It brings together the existing decision-making bodies of FIFA into a single institution made up of three chambers: the dispute resolution chambers, the status of the player and the agents.

For the Tokyo 2020 Games, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee has established the fundamental principles allowing athletes to exploit their sports images or performances. In France, the implementation of these principles is the responsibility of the French National Olympic Sports Committee.

During the Tokyo Olympics, Olympic athletes participating in the Games can now, thanks to an amendment to Article 40 of the Olympic Charter, use, under certain conditions, their names, images or sports performances for advertising purposes.

Audiovisual rights for professional football competitions are allocated by the Professional Football League (LFP) which centralizes their marketing on behalf of professional football clubs. What are the legal foundations of this centralized system?

The announcement of FC Girondins de Bordeaux of its financial difficulties following the departure from King Street, is an opportunity to recall the sporting consequences, and in particular a demotion, if a football club is the subject of a reorganization procedure or compulsory liquidation.

The French National Olympic and Sporting Committee (CNOSF) has authorized (in application of rule 40 of the Olympic Charter) the athletes to promote their sponsors and partners and the sponsors and partners to use the image of the participants during the Games period. Tokyo Olympics 2020

On Wednesday, 25, 2019, the FIFA Players Actors 'Committee adopted new recommendations concerning agents' fees (for players and clubs) and the number of player loans, with the aim of regulating the transfer market. .

FIFA announces the creation of an article 13 in the Regulations of the Players' Status Committee and the Dispute Resolution Chamber (CRL) to submit proposals in disputes relating to training compensation and the solidarity mechanism not for a preliminary ruling

Grand Symposium: the lawyer in sport. Cabinet BERTRAND is a partner of the 4th Assises du Droit du Sport and will lead a practical workshop on the theme The status of the sports trainer.

The European Commission has published a report on the development of the economic and legal issues of transfers entitled "An update on change drivers and economic and legal implications of transfers of players" analyzing the European football market and determining eight recommendations.

By decision of February 20, 2018, the Federal Court dismissed the appeal of the RFC Seraing club and the Doyen Sport company against the sentence of the CAS which had the validity of the FIFA regulations prohibiting recourse to the TPO.

The Court condemns the Française des Jeux (FdJ) to pay the winnings of a bettor (error in the calculation of the odds - FdJ responsible - inexcusable error not allowing the cancellation of sports betting contracts - FdJ must prove knowledge of the results by the bettor when placing his bet)

The Miami FC club said it had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to force the US Soccer Federation (USSF) to introduce the system of promotion / relegation in its championships.