Written by Richard Wee, Fatin Ismail and Nurul Athirah Ja’afar Introduction On 15 March 2023, the Ministry of Youth and Sports recently published its first edition of the Safe Sports Code, also known as “Kod…
Reported by Wong Zi Ying On 31 January 2023, Messrs Richard Wee Chambers (“RWC”) was invited by the Sekretariat Industri Sukan to attend a townhall programme with the Minister of Youth and Sports, YB Hannah…
Written by Richard Wee, Wong Zi Ying and Nurul Athirah Jaafar Introduction Recently, the Commissioner Of Sports Malaysia released a circular on the procedures in application of disputes or complaints in sports bodies (“the said…
Written by Richard Wee, Chew Zhen Tao and Wong Zi Ying On 11 October 2022, the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (“ICAS”) issued a media release regarding the amendments to the Code of Sports-related…
Copyright by LexisNexis Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Reproduced with permission of LexisNexis Malaysia Sdn Bhd. By Richard Wee, Fatin Ismail, Kimberly Chan and Tee Jae Ei In a previous article Deep Dive into Gene-Editing, we have given a brief but…
Written by Richard Wee, Wong Zi Ying and Fatimah Az-Zahra Introduction In 2018, the Sports Development Act 1997 (“the Act”) was amended by Parliament. Amongst its most prominent amendment, was the establishment of the Sports Dispute Committee (“SDC”)…
Written by Richard Wee, Wong Zi Ying and Fatimah Az-Zahra Introduction In Malaysia, the main legislation governing sports development and administration of sports is none other than the Sports Development Act 1997 (“the Act”) which was also recently…
Written by Richard Wee, Saphna Ravichandran, Wong Zi Ying, Sophia Ismail. Introduction What is sports technology? Technology in sports ranges from body techniques, traditional sports equipment used by athletes within competition, to performance enhancing machines, substances…
Written by Richard Wee, Chew Zhen Tao and Kimberly Chan Introduction It’s 2021, and statistics show that the global esports market yearly revenue is valued at approximately 1.08 billion U.S. dollars and forecasted to exceed 1.6 billion U.S.…
Reported by Sabrina Lee Nominated in 7 categories for the Firm, and 2 Individual categories, RWC takes home the Sports Law Award at the recent ALB Annual Malaysia Law Award 2021. Thomson Reuter’s Asian Legal Business (ALB)…