Varnish Case Could Run Past January

Fall-out from former sprinter’s tribunal could cause funding shake-up

- Vern Pitt

Jess Varnish’s landmark legal case against British Cycling could rumble on past the judgement in January, Cycling Weekly can reveal. Following a week of hearings at the Manchester employment tribunal last week, a judgement on whether Varnish was effectively an employee of British Cycling or UK Sport, and therefore subject to a raft of employment protections, is due in mid-January. However, Varnish’s lawyer Simon Fenton, partner at Constantine Law, has told CW that the case could well go on beyond that.