BHA reveals cost of disciplinary controversy

The controversy surrounding the BHA's disciplinary system which blew up last year reached its final chapter last week when it emerged the case had cost the governing body £425,000.

The figure came to light as the BHA published its annual report and accounts for 2016.

In 2016 it emerged that solicitor and former disciplinary panel chairman Matthew Lohn undertook additional and undivulged work for the BHA while also serving on its independent panel, creating a perception of bias that led to two convictions – those of Jim Best and Paul Gilligan – being sent for rehearings and seven others being identified as potentially unsound.