Creating an Eligibility Test for the World Rugby Council

It is election time for World Rugby. The elections for both the Chairman/Vice-Chairman and Executive Committee of rugby’s international governing body are underway, with the result to be formally announced on 12 May 2020, and there has already been plenty…

Welsh Rugby Union v Robert Howley: Prohibited Betting

On 11 December 2019, a Judicial Committee (the “Committee”) appointed by the Welsh Rugby Union (“WRU”) handed down its decision in the case of WRU v Robert Howley (the “Decision”). The Committee found that Howley had breached World Rugby Regulation…

The Rob Howley Case: Explained

This article was originally published in The Rugby Magazine a new media platform bringing rugby to life; stories, history, analysis and the most comprehensive fantasy rugby game available.   With the Rugby World Cup a matter of hours away, the Rob Howley betting…

Rugby’s Week from Hell

The past week might just have been the worst week of rugby news in history. Not ‘the worst’ because it has been dull – far from it – ‘the worst’ in the sense that almost all the news has been…