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Football Banning Orders - Exploring the Regime for Criminal Lawyers - Learn Live

Length
1.5 hours
Next course start
18 March, 2025 (+2 start dates)
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom
Length
1.5 hours
Next course start
18 March, 2025 (+2 start dates)
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom

Course description

Football banning orders are one of a range of ancillary orders open to a court upon conviction. The law was updated in 2022 to change the test the Court must consider when imposing a football banning order. It is now, arguably, easier than ever for Courts to impose such orders.


This virtual classroom seminar will provide comprehensive coverage of the legal regime for the imposition of football banning orders, ensuring practitioners are not caught offside when in court!


The highly regarded Clive Smith will answer important questions such as: Does a person need to be convicted in order to receive a football banning order? What are the relevant offences for the Court to consider a football banning order? And what does ‘related to football matches’ mean under the Football Spectators Act 1989?

Upcoming start dates

Choose between 2 start dates

18 March, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

6 August, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

Outcome / Qualification etc.

Following all MBL courses, a certificate of attendance will be provided for those who are required to evidence their CPD activity to a professional body.

Training Course Content

Introduction

Just as they think it’s all over, the issue of the football banning order steals in at the back post.

Football banning orders are one of a range of ancillary orders open to a court upon conviction. The law was updated in 2022 to change the test the Court must consider when imposing a football banning order. It is now, arguably, easier than ever for Courts to impose such orders.

The football banning order regime is somewhat unique in its operation. Whereas most ancillary orders operate continuously, the regime in relation to football comes into force at varying times, depending on the footballing calendar. The course will cover the issue of declarations of relevance, particularly the Court of Appeal guidance which provides helpful clarification. It will also deal with the issue of international tournaments requiring the surrender of passports for example.

This virtual classroom seminar will provide comprehensive coverage of the legal regime for the imposition of football banning orders, ensuring practitioners are not caught offside when in court!

What You Will Learn

This live broadcast will cover the following:

  • Does a person need to be convicted in order to receive a football banning order?
  • What are the relevant offences for the Court to consider a football banning order?
  • How has the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 amended the test for the granting of an order?
  • How do football banning orders and prohibited activity requirements under a suspended sentence complement each other?
  • What does ‘related to football matches’ mean under the Football Spectators Act 1989?
  • What time period either side of a football match will make a defendant eligible for a football banning order?

Expenses

From £144
MBL Seminars Limited
C/o Law Business Research
Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
WC1V 7QT London

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