Organisation: International Olympic Committee

An Irish barrister who was for a time legal counsel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and regularly appears in cases before it has joined a Swiss law firm with a strong reputation for sports arbitration, Kellerhals Carrard.

13 December 2017

UPDATED. Despite “the tyranny of distance” which has shaped its history, Australia has positioned itself as an attractive venue for international arbitration in the Asia Pacific and globally, Doug Jones has told an event in Sydney.

11 October 2017

GAR continues its publication of shortlists for awards that will be open to the public vote, ahead of this year's awards ceremony in Milan.

09 March 2017

After resolving doping disputes at first instance at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Court of Arbitration for Sport could be given a more general authority to do so.

10 October 2016

A feud between rival branches of Kuwait’s ruling family has led to raids on the offices of a Geneva disputes boutique amid allegations that its managing partner took part in a fraudulent arbitration.

23 September 2016

UPDATED. Pending resolution of an appeal from a decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Russian Paralympic athletes have failed to persuade Switzerland’s highest court to overturn a blanket ban on them competing in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

01 September 2016

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld a decision by the International Paralympic Committee to ban Russia’s entire Paralympic team from the games in Rio de Janeiro because of evidence of state-sponsored doping.

23 August 2016

The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Olympic ad hoc division has officially closed for business after dealing with a record 28 cases in Rio – but members of the division are still hearing an appeal against Russian Paralympic athletes blanket ban because of alleged state-sponsored doping.

22 August 2016

The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s new anti-doping division – which is in Rio de Janeiro to resolve disputes over doping that arise during the course of the Olympic Games – has issued its first decisions, as the ad hoc division keeps hard at work.

15 August 2016

UPDATED.The blanket exclusion of Russian athletes from the Paralympics in Rio de Janiero because of evidence of state-sponsored doping is to be appealed to the Court of Arbitration of Sport, with funding from a prominent businessman.

12 August 2016