Louis Weston is a Barrister, Recorder (part time civil and criminal judge) and arbitrator qualified in England and Wales who practised internationally.
He has specialised in Sports Law for over 15 years, with his practice focusing on Sports Regulation particularly corruption and match manipulation, Governance, On Field Disciplinary Cases, Safeguarding and Anti-Doping. He is ranked as a leading junior in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 UK.
He has acted for the Governing Bodies of the sports of Horseracing in Britain, Ireland, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabi in racing fixing, doping and welfare cases and advised other governing bodies across a range of sports including Snooker, Badminton, Rugby, Darts, Cricket, Golf, Gymnastics, and Greyhound Racing. He has represented governing bodies and athletes both before Disciplinary Tribunals in the UK, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Asia, the CAS and the Courts (High Court and Court of Appeal).
He was appointed a member of the WADA Independent Ethics Board in 2025 and is appointed to the English FA’s Judicial Panel, the IBA’s dispute resolution chamber, British Gymnastics’ Independent Case Panel and Sports Resolutions and Sport Disputes Ireland’s arbitral panel and its pro-bono group. He sits an arbitrator in Rule K Arbitrations and panellist for a range of sports. Between 2018 and 2014 he was a member of the ICC’s independent oversight of group of its anti-corruption unit.
He speaks and publishes regularly on sports law issues and was the lead author of the UNODC and IOC publications ‘A Guide to the Prosecution of Competition Manipulation’ and ‘Guide on the Prosecution of Bribery in Sport’, and he is the lead author of the Sport Chapter in Lissack and Horlick.