PREMIER LEAGUE

SECTION W: DISCIPLINARY
Legal Representation Old Rule
W.78. The parties to proceedings before a Commission or an Appeal Board shall be
entitled to be represented by a solicitor or counsel provided that they shall have
given to the other party and to the chairman of the Commission or of the Appeal
Board as the case may be 14 days’ prior written notice to that effect identifying
the solicitor or counsel instructed.
Publication and Privilege Old Rule
W.79. Without prejudice in any event to any form of privilege available in respect of any
such publication, whether pursuant to the Defamation Act 1996 or otherwise, the
Board, a Commission and an Appeal Board shall be entitled to publish as each of
them shall think fit reports of their proceedings, whether or not they reflect
adversely on the character or conduct of any Club, Manager, Match Official,
Official or Player and any Club and any person bound by these Rules and any
person bound by virtue of any obligation whether to the League or to any third
party to observe these Rules shall be deemed to have provided their full and
irrevocable consent to the publication of oral or written statements without limit
in number by any of the Board, a Commission and an Appeal Board in any form or
media as each of them shall think fit of details of any and all evidence tendered in
any proceedings over which they have jurisdiction and of a full report of any
finding or decision made by any of the said bodies.
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PREMIER LEAGUE RULES: SECTION W