Stephen Lee's appeal against 12-year ban for match fixing to be heard in January
The 38-year-old, who has always denied the charges, was handed what is effectively a career-ending sentence in September
Stephen Lee’s appeal against a 12-year ban from snooker will take place on January 30.
The 38-year-old from Trowbridge was handed what is effectively a career-ending sentence in September for fixing seven matches.
However Lee, a five-time ranking event winner, always denied the charges in what was tagged the worst case of corruption in the sport.
And Lee is appealing against the conviction, sentence and £40,000 costs under a process again staged by independent tribunal body Sport Resolutions.
Edwin Glasgow QC will chair the new appeals panel, supported by a tribunal solicitor.
It is understood the basis for Lee’s appeal will include reference to the selection of Adam Lewis QC as the chair of the original panel, as well as aspects of the judgment.
Lewis had at one time been engaged to do work for Leyton Orient Football Club, owned by World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn.
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, and Integrity Unit chief Nigel Mawer, strongly refute the notion that Lewis was anything other than independent.
And they claim Lee’s then legal team consented to Lewis’s appointment with full knowledge of his past and current work.
Glasgow has been involved in some of the most high profile public inquiries and litigation into disasters and events in the past two decades.
These include the Piper Alpha disaster, the Bloody Sunday Enquiry and the Guinness DTI Enquiry.