The recent award by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the dispute between AC Bellinzona 1904 SA and the Swiss Football League (SFL) (2024/A/10916) offers an interesting opportunity to reflect on the rigid application of federal rules regarding "locally trained" football players and
Sports image rights are very valuable and widely defined. See the judicial definition in the English case of Proactive Sports Management v Rooney of 2011. They include a person’s name, including nick name, initials, image and likeness and other personal and distinctive characteristics, including lifestyle. They also
It has been announced on 21 March 2025 that the Swiss Sports Tribunal (TSS) has suspended for one year a Swiss floorball player for possession of the prohibited substance RAD140 (SARM). The offence came to light during a postal inspection, in which a package containing 180
In this Post, we focus on some key judicial developments and their application in France. Sport is not exempt from free market rules in the European Union (EU). Whilst Article 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) recognises the specific nature of
The long-running case brought by the German Olympic speed skater, Claudia Pechstein, against the International Skating Union (ISU) in relation to an anti-doping violation dispute, which occurred in the special medical situation of Pechstein, who claimed to have an inherited blood disease causing the alleged
Throughout the world, there is a continuing need to bridge the gender gap between men and women in the sporting arena and the same is true in the United Kingdom. We report the findings to date of the UK Women in Sport Charity (www.womeninsport.org), whose aim
© IOC/Greg Martin The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has broken with tradition and elected a woman as its new President. She is Kirtsy Coventry, the Zimbabwe Sports Minister, and, at 41 years old, the youngest ever to hold this prestigious position in the 130-year history of the
We are pleased to welcome the German lawyer Oliver Fischer to our Law Firm. Oliver Fischer is a highly respected and well-known sports law lawyer in Germany. His clients are high level sportspersons as well as coaches, clubs, agencies, and sponsors, especially in football, tennis and
The acquisition of real estate in Switzerland by an Italian citizen, or by foreign nationals in general, is not entirely unrestricted but is subject to specific limitations imposed by Swiss legislation, namely the so-called Koller Law. Since 1961, Switzerland has enacted laws governing the acquisition of
With just one year to go to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games, which take place in Italy from 6-22 February 2026, Andrew Parsons, the President of the International Paralympic Committee, has sounded a warning note about the future of the Winter Paralympic Games and, indeed, the