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Sports Criminal Law
7 articles on sports criminal law: penalties, case law and defense strategy. See the practice area →
Assaulting a Referee in Youth Football: What Offence It Really Is and What Penalties Apply
A push aimed at a referee in an under-12 match is not the same offence as a punch that breaks his nose, and it is not judged the same way. The line between battery under Art. 147.3 CP, a minor injury offence under 147.2 and the offence of bodily harm under 147.1, and the decisive role of the medical report.
When the Club Is the One Convicted: Corporate Criminal Liability of Sports Entities (Art. 31 bis CP)
A club, a SAD (sports limited company) or a federation can be criminally convicted for what its directors or its employees do. The catalogue of offences that applies to sport, the penalties under Art. 33.7 CP — which reach as far as dissolution — and what a prevention model has to include to genuinely provide an exemption.
Online Abuse of Athletes in Spain: from Hate Crime to Defamation
When mass online abuse of an athlete stops being criticism and becomes a hate crime (art. 510 CP), calumny or injury under Spanish law, and how it is defended.
Match-Fixing and Sports Corruption (Art. 286 bis CP)
What match-fixing is as the sports corruption offence under Art. 286 bis.4 CP: punishable conduct, penalties, the special-relevance threshold and lines of defence.
The Sports Doping Offence (Article 362 quinquies of the Criminal Code)
Art. 362 quinquies CP punishes those who supply athletes with dangerous doping substances, not the athlete who dopes himself.
Stadium and Sporting-Event Violence: Crime and Defence
The criminal side of stadium violence (public-order offences, injuries, damage) and the administrative sanction of Law 19/2007. Offences, penalties and defence.
Sports Criminal Law: Match-Fixing, Doping and Violence
Professional sport has its own criminal boundary: match-fixing, doping and violence in stadiums. Offences, penalties and defence.
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