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GAZETTE
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1 9 87
David Pigot - Perennial Sportsman
remuneration over the pre-
ceding 5 years nor greater than
twice that annual remuneration
(Arts. 28, 29, 30, 31);
(q) provision limiting restrictions
on the business activities of
the agent after the contract
has terminated. In particular no
limitation in excess of 2 years
duration is valid (Art. 32);
(r) larger entities acting as agents
(paid up capital greater than
100,000 ECU
'S
or turnover in
excess of 500,000 ECUs per
annum) may derogate from Ar-
ticles 14(4), 19, 21, 26(2) and
30;
(s) defining the limitation period
for claims as 3 years, (Art. 34);
(t) providing that any stipulation
derogating from Articles 8,
10(2)(c), 12(1 )(a), 15, 18, 19,
21(1) (2) and (3), 23, 24, 27,
28, 29(2), 30, 32 and 34 shall
be void (Art. 35).
You have been warned. Now is
the time to take out the agency
contracts file and review all ex-
isting arrangements in the light of
these proposals.
What action should you take?
If you are a principal you should
look at your contracts and your
agent's to see if any of the provi-
sions conflict with the mandatory
provisions of the Directive. If they
do then you may wish to terminate
them and negotiate new ar-
rangements which are not in con-
flict and at the same time introduce
limitations on termination pay-
ments which are within the permit-
ted perimeter. If the agency is for
a term of years it may only be ter-
minated by mutual consent.
If you are an Agent you should
also consider whe t her
re-
negotiation is desirable. It is likely
that most agents will feel reassured
by the provisions of the Directive
which, in general, will enhance
their position. Perhaps they should
buy up all the available copies of
this
Gazette
to ensure that their
principals do not get wind of it.
Many Presidents have achieved
distinctions in other fields of
activity than the law, but none can
have achieved such long standing
success in the sporting world in
Ireland as the present incumbent.
David R. Pigot, or D. R. Pigot, Jnr.
as he was originally described in
cricketing records, has been
playing senior competitive cricket
in Dublin for forty-one consecutive
seasons. He has played in 100
more senior matches than his
nearest rival, Niall McConnell,
having first played in the 1946
season. In his career with Dublin
University and Phoenix — almost
always as an opening batsman —
he has scored a total of 14,042
runs, second only in Dublin cricket
to "Ginger" O'Brien of Malahide.
He has also taken 125 wickets,
though he has not taken a wicket
since 1976.
It was in 1976 that he played the
last of his 44 games for Ireland. His
international career is remarkable in
that having been first capped at a
time which would have been late
in most players' careers (he was 37
at the time) he proceeded to play
for Ireland for a further eight years,
gaining 41 consecutive caps. He
scored 1,513 runs in seventy-three
innings (once being not out) for an
average of 19.39, his highest score
being 88 which he achieved twice
in the 1970 season, once against
Scotland and once against The
Combined Services. In spite of his
having taken over 125 wickets in
Dublin Senior Cricket, he never
bowled for Ireland.
Of the matches David has played
for Ireland the most memorable
must be the West Indies match of
1969. On a "green" pitch at Sion
Mills the West Indies side, including
Clive Lloyd, Basil Butcher and John
Shepherd, were bowled out by
Alec O'Riordan and Duggie
Goodwin for twenty-five. Not
surprisingly Ireland won the match
by nine wickets and batting on
reached 125 for 8 declared, with
David Pigot top scorer with 37.
David's sporting career has not
been limited to cricket. He played
rugby for Trinity, Monkstown and
St. Mary's College — normally at
scrum-half and at second team
level, but w i th occasional
appearances in the Senior Cup. On
his retirement from rugby he took
up hockey, never having played
before, in 1959 joining Three Rock
Rovers. By 1965/66 he was on
their Senior League winning side
and after a period on the second XI
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David Pigot (left) and Jack Short pictured on the occasion of the
Ireland v. Scotland match, in Rathmines, August 1975.
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