England Netball hired a firm of consultants in an attempt to minimize damage to the sport’s reputation over a "costly legal case in which it paid a private investigator to look into the affairs" of Brentwood Chair Colin Meister. The sport, which receives more than half of its £11M ($15.3M) annual income from public money and Lottery funds from Sport England, contracted "reputational risk service" Sheridans to advise the governing body "for all possible outcomes" of the case (LONDON TIMES, 3/17).
The "ugly battle" between the two-member Committee of Administrators and the three principal BCCI office bearers "got murkier" with the Vinod Rai-led panel deciding to take away all functioning powers of acting President C.K. Khanna, acting Secretary Amitabh Chaudhary and Treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry (PTI, 3/16).
Melbourne lawyer Jackson Taylor will "continue his bid to seek clarity" on the Australian Football League side Essendon supplements saga when his case against the AFL heads to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Sources close to the case confirmed that it would go ahead, "for Jackson has provided security for costs to pursue his claims of deceptive and misleading conduct," claims the AFL denies (THE AGE, 3/17).
Change is coming to the New Zealand Rugby board, with former deputy Labour leader Annette King and former All Black Michael Jones "set to go head-to-head for one elected position." King or Jones will reportedly replace former first-class and test referee Glenn Wahlstrom on NZR's nine-person board (NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 3/18).
