Past events
Photos from ‘Hold the Backpage’
1st July 2025
Hold the backpage
Introducing:
Hold the Backpage
A PJP conference event exploring reputation, regulation, and media accountability in sport.
Join us on 1st July 2025, from 14:00 to 18:00 (with drinks from 18:00 to 20:00), at Saffery Accountants, London.
Across three dynamic panels, Hold the Backpage brings together leading media lawyers, regulators, agents, and sportspeople with first-hand experience of the press spotlight.
Together, they will explore how reputations are shaped and damaged in sport, and how sportspeople and their representatives can protect themselves and their clients from press abuse.
Panel topics:
Media lawyers in sport
Regulators, agents and advocacy groups
Athletes and public figures on media exposure
Speakers including:
Leading media lawyers William Bennett KC (5RB), Rachael Somerset (Level), Felicity McMahon (5RB), Mohit Pasricha (Lawrence Stephens);
Experts Roisin Wood (Non-Exec Director, Irish Football Association), Troy Townsend (broadcaster, ex-pro footballer), Clive Colman and Gary Newbon;
Sky Sports presenter Claire Tomlinson, ex-England international Tony Woodcock, Spurs legend Paul Miller and former Premier League manager John Gregory.
The Press Justice Project october summit - hosted by brown rudnick
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