Blog tagged as Inaptitude / Health

Since January 1, 2021, the International Football Association Board ("IFAB") has been offering protocols to protect the football player who has suffered a concussion without numerically disadvantage his team and is experimenting with the possibility of an additional permanent replacement.

In terms of sports practice (training / competition), in the event of an accident or injury, the implementation of the so-called risk acceptance theory may allow the author of the damage to be exempted from his civil liability. . Definition and limit (violation of the rules of the game)?

According to the decree of May 7, 2021, in the absence of any contraindication to the practice of sport, for minors outside disciplines with special constraints, the production of a medical certificate for the minor athlete is replaced by a certificate from the persons exercising the parental authority.

The Decree of August 24, 2016 modifies the provisions of the Sports Code concerning the requirement of a medical certificate for the issue and renewal of the sports license. A decree of April 20, 2017 specifies the content of the health questionnaire and the obligation or not of the medical certificate.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) released its 23 Doping Control Data Report, which summarizes the results of all samples analyzed in 2016 in WADA-accredited laboratories.

Decree fixing, in application of Law n ° 2016-41 of January 26, 2016 on the modernization of our health system, the conditions for renewing the sports license and lists the sports disciplines which present particular constraints for which a medical examination is required

A judgment of the Court of Arbitration for Sport of December 3, 2014 makes it possible to reconsider the notion of "just cause" allowing one of the two parties (the player or the club) to terminate the employment contract binding them in advance.

The judgment of the second civil chamber of the Court of Cassation of 20 November 2014 makes it possible to recall the elements making it possible to engage the civil liability of an athlete: the proof of a fault characterized by a violation of the rules of the game must be reported

The recent news of the Court of Cassation gives us the opportunity to review the jurisprudential and legal evolution of the concept of civil liability (because of things and the acts of others) since the judgment of November 4, 2010.

The legislator has authorized a new case of early termination of the Fixed-Term Contract: the physical incapacity of the employee noted by the occupational physician (law 2011-525 of May 17, 2011 applicable since May 19)