Legal Panel Framework

Sport England, the Sport and Recreation Alliance, Sport Wales and UK Sport have teamed up to establish a framework panel of law firms to provide legal services to national governing bodies of sport and recreation.

• What is the Legal Panel Framework?

  The Framework provides organisations the opportunity to access trusted legal advice and services from fifteen appointed law firm.

• Guide to Instructing a Firm

  We worked with the Legal Panel Framework firms to pull together guidance on how to instruct and how to get the most out of your initial instruction to one of the firms.

• Free 20 Minute Helpline

  As part of the Legal Panel Framework, each of the firms has committed to provide a free 20 minute helpline to sport and recreation organisations. 

• Pro-Bono Fund

  Each firm on the panel has committed to provide up to £5,000 worth of work free per year to the sport and recreation sector.

• Law Firms in England & Wales

  See a short profile of each of the appointed law firms that make up the Legal Panel Framework. 

• Law Firms in Northern Ireland

  See a short profile of each of the appointed law firms that make up the Legal Panel Framework based in Northern Ireland.