UK sports arbitration body, the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel, has appointed four lawyers to its board. Peter Crystal, founder of City law firm Memery Crystal and corporate finance and sports specialist, has joined as a non-executive director along with Lovells partner Ros Reston and Clarke Willmott sports law partner Trevor Watkins. The body, headed by Gerard Elias QC of Farrar’s Building, has also invited British Olympic Association legal director Sara Friend to sit on the new-look management board.

Source: Legal Week