Competition amongst sporting organizations vying for eligible,
talented athletes is commonplace. Accordingly, organizations take
steps to ensure that their procedures, as established through means
such as by-laws and regulations, are set up in a manner which best
achieve this goal. However, organizations must be mindful that
their procedures should remain onside the law and have a strong
legal underpinning because they can potentially be vulnerable to
challenge through the courts.
In The Tewaaraton Lacrosse League v. Ontario Lacrosse
Association, 2022
ONSC 3592 (CanLII), the Tewaaraton Lacrosse League
(“TLL”) sued the Ontario Lacrosse
Association (“OLA”) for interference
in economic relations by unlawful means and sought an interlocutory
injunction to prohibit the OLA from stripping the OLA membership
from any athletes who played in a competing league.
