Sport England has recommended that England Netball bring in some changes to its guidelines DAVE ROWLAND/GETTY IMAGESEngland Netball has hired a firm of consultants in an attempt to minimise damage to the sport’s reputation over a costly legal case in which it paid a private investigator to look into the affairs of the chairman of a successful club. The sport, which receives more than half of its £11 million annual income from public money and Lottery funds from Sport England, has employed Sheridans, the reputational risk service, to advise the governing body “for all possible outcomes” of the case. The legal action involves Colin Meister, the chairman of the Brentwood club in Essex, who is challenging his suspension by England Netball. The governing body told him that the action was taken on the grounds that he was a potential threat to…

Source: The Times March 17, 2018 00:00 UTC