Littleton Chambers

Employment and Sports Law

Joel Wallace is a sports law, employment law and business protection specialist. He acts across the full range of these disciplines, including arbitration, commercial and contract disputes, misconduct, doping, whistleblowing, and discrimination.

Modern and down-to-earth describe Joel’s practice and approach respectively. Joel is a sports, employment and business protection/commercial law barrister whose specialist areas centre around contemporary issues. He prides himself on his collaborative style, which focuses on early strategising to achieve client objectives. Joel’s self-deprecating manner makes working with him on even the most challenging cases easy and enjoyable.

Sport Resolutions Safeguarding Case Management Programme Legal Advice Service

Sport Resolutions Pro Bono Panel

Former chair on The FA’s CFA Disciplinary Panel (from 2017 to 2021)

Employment Law Association Member

Sports

"‘Golden Mitigation’ in football: Lessons from the Nottingham Forest's Profitability & Sustainability Regulations Appeal decision", (2024) LawInSport

“Pitfalls of Sports Federations Playing Judge, Jury & Executioner – A Review of Turk v FIM”, (2022) LawInSport

“VB Football Assets v Blackpool Football Club (Properties) Ltd & Ors [2018] EWHC 1232” (Ch), (2018) Lexis Analysis

Employment

“Clarity for Irregular Workers: Paid Annual Leave Accrual in the Supreme Court” (2022) Lexology

“Annual Leave in the Court of Appeal: Another win for Gig Workers” (2022) Lexology

Commercial

“Directors Duties to Creditors: Does BTI 2014 v Sequana Bring Clarity or Confusion to the Duty?” (2022) Littleton

Talks and Speaking Events

“Law students need to stop waiting for that Suits moment” (2018) Legal Cheek