Commercial Law And The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (Video)

• Published date: 07 September 2022
• Subject Matter: Corporate/Commercial Law, Government, Public Sector, Contracts and Commercial Law, Government Contracts, Procurement & PPP
• Law Firm: Gowling WLG
• Author: Ms Ruth Griffin and Heledd B McBride

As the Official Legal Advisers to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, our work involved bringing in a wide variety of teams from across practice areas to support Birmingham 2022. In this video, partner Ruth Griffin and PSL principal associate Heledd McBride discuss the projects surrounding commercial agreements.

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Ruth Griffin: We are extremely proud to be Official Legal Advisers to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Our work has involved bringing in a wide variety of teams from across the firm to support Birmingham 2022 in creating a foundation for an event in which history will be made. So in terms of what we've been supporting Birmingham 2022 with on a day-to-day basis, it's all legal support that a public body would need when they're organising an international sporting event. So there's workforce issues, procurement issues, so they need to buy everything for the Games.

So supporting them with works services and product procurements, supporting them with brand protection. There's also supporting with public sector specific issues, such as freedom of information requests and also the day-to-day general issues that you face as any organisation around data protection.

Heledd McBride: As part of my secondment I've been fortunate enough to be able to have a 360 experience of ticketing for an international sporting event. I've been involved in drafting the original ticketing contract, the ticketing T&Cs.

I've also then dealt with queries from the public in relation to the tickets that they've purchased. In addition to that, I'm also the Legal Lead for the Birmingham 2022 Ceremonies, Culture and Queen's Baton Relay department.

That's been fantastic. I've been dealing with Commonwealth Games Associations across the whole Commonwealth in managing the transportation of the Baton from country to country during the pandemic, which has...