Cases

Watson v Prager and Another

Held

(1) Although the terms of the agreement were prescribed by the British Boxing Board of Control as the only terms a licensed boxer and manager could enter into, the manager was also a promoter with a conflict between his financial interests as promoter and his duty as manager. The option to renew for a period as long as three years was unreasonable as was the requirement that the Claimant fight under the terms imposed upon him by the Defendants. The contract was unenforceable. (2) It followed that the First Defendant could not rely on the arbitration clause. His application for a stay was dismissed. The Claimant's application to annul the arbitration clause did not arise. However, the court would have granted that relief if necessary; although the claim did not involve fraud within the meaning of s24(2) of the 1950 Act, the BBBC might not be impartial in a dispute which involved an attack on its licensing system and its authority to act as arbitrator would have been revoked.

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