Legal

UK streamer Ali ‘Gross Gore’ Larsen says he has started legal action against Behemeth, an Old School RuneScape […]

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UK-based teams have been involved with the Esports World Cup, including a firm responsible for designing the 2024 […]

Read More… from Who designed the first Esports World Cup trophy? UK links with inaugural tournament include trophy designers and law firm

Former Galaxy Racer esports staff, players and content creators have taken to social media to complain about not […]

Read More… from Former Galaxy Racer players and talent go public over unpaid salaries: ‘Be careful who you work with’

Counter-Strike and Dota 2 developer Valve is facing a lawsuit in the UK for ‘overcharging PC gamers’ on […]

Read More… from Valve sued for £656m for ‘overcharging PC gamers’ in the UK, Scots could receive more compensation than other Brits if claim is successful

Update (October 12th 2022): The planned employment tribunal hearing did not take place this week, as Kieran Holmes-Darby […]

Read More… from Kieran Holmes-Darby and Excel Esports reach settlement over unfair dismissal claim

Disgraced esports social media manager Fosty (aka Aleksa) has threatened those who published his messages online with legal […]

Read More… from Social media manager Fosty threatens accusers with legal action after being released from Excel Esports: ‘I believe that several court cases are just what is needed to sort it all out’

Image source: Inven Global A Korean law firm has filed a lawsuit on behalf of T1 pro player […]

Read More… from What are the legalities around the Faker lawsuit? We asked UK barrister Nick Williams about laws around malicious comments and the differences between Korean and UK law

UK-based legal business Morgan Sports Law DotX Talent, a new esports and gaming talent management business. This brings […]

Read More… from Morgan Sports Law launches DotX Talent, a new esports and gaming talent management agency for pro players, casters and streamers

Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco pens some thoughts from the heart following the news that the California […]

Read More… from Opinion: World of Warcraft is tainted. Let it be – let it put you off playing it, let it act as a reminder of Activision Blizzard’s abhorrent behaviour. If that’s what it’s going to take to start eliminating sexual harassment from this industry, then so be it

The legal representatives of Frazier Kay (pictured left), the British content creator that was recently booted out of […]

Read More… from Frazier Kay to sue Coffeezilla over Save the Kids crypto investigation

UPDATES: Facebook Gaming has terminated its partner status contracts with both Jeff Leach and NitroLukeDX (May 13th) following […]

Read More… from ‘I’m excited to speak to my lawyers’ – spat between British content creators NitroLukeDX and former CoD Ghost voice actor Jeff Leach gets ugly

Last year the University of Roehampton began offering esports scholarships – the first of their kind in the […]

Read More… from First person in UK to receive an esports scholarship from Roehampton University is a high elo League of Legends player

British game developer Jagex has announced it’s sacked a member of the Old School RuneScape team for attempting […]

Read More… from Jagex fires member of Old School RuneScape team for 'gross misuse' of moderator privileges, is working with the police

The founder of a CSGO organisation has threatened to sue some UK CSGO players. Andrei Costin “Raso” Macovei, […]

Read More… from ‘You will regret every single word’ – org owner threatens to sue UK CSGO team

UK eSports organisations Choke Gaming and ManaLight have introduced contracts for their League of Legends players, with the latter […]

Read More… from UK eSports organisations introduce legally binding player contracts and salaries