Max Duthie, a partner in Bird & Bird’s sports group, is the legal officer to the British and Irish Lions, travelling with the tour party on its historic tour to Hong Kong and Australia for six weeks. He is writing a tour diary, exclusively for Legal Week. This is his third instalment.
After two full days in solitary confinement in a Brisbane hotel room around the time of the Lions v Queensland Reds match, I was starting to get agitated. My vomiting had not subsided and I remained a risk of infection to the rest of the tour party, but I was getting pretty bored.
