Blog tagged as Court of Arbitration for Sport

Analysis of the crucial role of the CAS ad-hoc and anti-doping Chambers at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: exclusive jurisdiction based on the Olympic Charter and contracts, accelerated arbitration procedures, issues of awards in matters of eligibility and doping

The CAS reduces the suspension of Simona Halep from 4 years to 9 months for involuntary doping. The former world No. 1 proved that her positive test for Roxadustat during the 2022 US Open was due to contamination of a dietary supplement. She can return to competition immediately.

For FIFA and the CAS, a national football federation cannot terminate, on the grounds of non-achievement of a sporting objective, unilaterally and in advance the employment contract of the selector or assistant coach of the national team without payment. compensation.

For the CJEU, the rules of UEFA, FIFA and ISU on the prior approval of sports competitions are contrary to European competition law. Arbitration bodies in sports matters must be able to be subject to effective judicial control (via a preliminary question)

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected the request filed by the Russian Football Federation against the decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee and the FIFA Council suspending the participation of Russian clubs and national teams in their competitions.

FIFA presented on September 10, 2021 the rules of procedure and operation of the Football Court. It brings together the existing decision-making bodies of FIFA into a single institution made up of three chambers: the dispute resolution chambers, the status of the player and the agents.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport refrains from "reviewing decisions taken on the field of play by referees or other officials responsible for applying the rules of the game, unless there is evidence that these rules have been applied. arbitrarily or in bad faith "

An anti-doping control carried out in France (national or international athlete) with a positive result leads to a presumption of infringement of anti-doping rules and the opening of a disciplinary procedure before the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) .

On December 17, 2020, the CAS declared the suspension of Russia from all international competitions (Olympic Games and world championships) for a period of two years (i.e. until December 16, 2022) due to the non-compliance of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) with the World Anti-Doping Code

The Brussels Court of Appeal (judgment 29 August 2018) declares the illegality of the clauses of compulsory appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the statutes of FIFA, UEFA and the national federations with regard to European law and the European Convention on Human Rights.

By decision of February 20, 2018, the Federal Court dismissed the appeal of the RFC Seraing club and the Doyen Sport company against the sentence of the CAS which had the validity of the FIFA regulations prohibiting recourse to the TPO.

The Miami FC club said it had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to force the US Soccer Federation (USSF) to introduce the system of promotion / relegation in its championships.

According to FIFA's press release, the Court of Arbitration for Sport would have validated under European Union law the sanction imposed by the Disciplinary Commission on FC Seraing for violations of the regulations related to the ownership of the economic rights of players by players. third party TPO

On January 19, 2017, the Commercial Court of Hainaut, in the context of the dispute between the player Lassana Diarra and FIFA and the Belgian Football Federation, declared article 17.2 of the Regulation of Status and Transfer of Players.

Several important decisions have been taken by Fifa and UEFA. Gibraltar should join Fifa, Kosovo is a new member of UEFA. In Africa, the Beninese Federation is suspended by Fifa; and Equatorial Guinea, she is excluded from the 2020 Women's Olympic Football Tournament

On the occasion of its last meeting, the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS), the body that manages the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), has elected a new President of the Ordinary Arbitration Division CAS and amended its Code.

A judgment of the Court of Arbitration for Sport of December 3, 2014 makes it possible to reconsider the notion of "just cause" allowing one of the two parties (the player or the club) to terminate the employment contract binding them in advance.

German justice refused to apply a judgment of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the grounds that it was contrary to European Union law. In a new judgment of the Federal Court of June 7, 2016, the courts revisited this position and validated the procedure before the CAS.

German justice has just rendered a decision refusing to apply judgments of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and of the International Federations on the grounds that they were contrary to European Union law, case of Pechstein v / International Skating Union Court of 'Munich call 15.01.2015

German justice refuses to apply judgments of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and therefore, by extension, decisions of International Federations, on the grounds that these were contrary to European Union law (SV Wilhelmshaven v / FIFA & DFB before the Bremen Court of Appeal 31.12.2014)