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A General Overview on Court of Arbitration Sports’ Rules
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Prof. Dr. H. Ercument Erdem
Introduction
The Court of Arbitration for Sports (“CAS”) is an independent
institution established to provide dispute settlement through mediation
or arbitration for any sports-related disputes. The Statutes of Bodies
Working for the Settlement of Sports-Related Disputes (“Statutes”)
foresees two bodies in Article S1, the International Council of
Arbitration for Sports (“ICAS”) and the CAS - both bodies are seated
in Lausanne, Switzerland. The CAS is administered and financed by
the ICAS.
The CAS adapted its own Procedural Rules (“Rules”)
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to address
specific the character of sports disputes. Pursuant to Article S12 of the
Statutes, the CAS resolves sports-related disputes by constituting pan-
els. These panels are responsible to resolve disputes at hand in accor-
dance with the Rules. The three main responsibilities of these panels
are to resolve disputes that are addressed through ordinary arbitration
in cases where the federation, associations, sports-related bodies
statutes, or an agreement, provide resolution through appeals of arbi-
tration procedure disputes, which are related to such decisions of fed-
erations, associations or other sports-related bodies, and to resolve dis-
putes addressed through mediation
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Organization of CAS
The CAS is divided into two divisions: the Ordinary Arbitration
Division, and the Appeals Arbitration Division. The organization and
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Article of March 2015
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See:
http://www.tas-cas.org/en/arbitration/code-procedural-rules.html.2
See:
http://www.tas-cas.org/en/icas/code-statutes-of-icas-and-cas.html.