A legal battle between two AFL player agents will now come under investigation.
The board responsible for player agent accreditation has announced it will look into the Supreme Court case between the Strategic and Precision management companies.
Jason Sourasis, the boss of Strategic, took former Geelong player Liam Pickering to court.
Pickering left Strategic two years ago to set up Precision.
"An investigator has now been appointed, and will seek to determine what, if any, breaches of the AFLPA regulations governing accredited agents - and Code of Conduct may have occurred," the agents accreditation board said in a statement.
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On Tuesday, Pickering was ordered to pay damages to Sourasis after high-profile clients followed him when he left Strategic sports management.
Strategic sued Pickering in the Victorian Supreme Court for breaching his contractual obligations and diverting AFL contracts away from Strategic.
Justice Michael Sifris ruled in Strategic's favour and found the company had been "impoverished and suffered loss and damage as a result of the conduct of Pickering".
The court dismissed Pickering's counterclaim that Strategic failed to pay all of a $200,000 sign-on fee he was promised for joining the company.
But the judge found in Pickering's favour on a second counterclaim about oppressive conduct because Sourasis and Strategic had kept Pickering in the dark about financial transactions and business deals.
Justice Sifris said "both parties have won and lost".
