A guide to the commercial arbitral institutions increasingly used for sports disputes
This article discusses the growing trend of sports disputes being referred to non-sports specific arbitral tribunals. It highlights the difference between the seat and venue of an arbitration, before examining several notable commercial arbitral institutions and their main features:
- What “seat of arbitration” means
- International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- Saudi Centre for Commercial Arbitration (SCAA)
- International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR)
- American Arbitration Association (AAA)
- JAMS
- United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
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- Tags: Arbitration | Commercial | Dispute Resolution
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Written by
Steven Flynn
Steven is a specialist sports law barrister at Kings Chambers and 2 Temple Gardens. His practice is focused on commercial, employment, and regulatory matters. Steven is frequently instructed by players, clubs, agents, governing bodies, and players’ associations to deal with high profile/value disputes in these areas.
Jessica van der Meer
Jessica is a barrister at 2 Temple Gardens. Her sports practice specialises in anti-doping cases (WADA and on a national level) covering all major sports. Since 2015 she has regularly represented athletes in (amongst other sports) British amateur cycling, internationally ranked ITF and Paralympic tennis players and national professional weightlifters contesting Anti-Doping Rule Violations or adverse analytical findings. Her expertise covers the full spectrum of anti-doping matters from contesting whereabouts failures to disputing the presence of prohibited substances (ranging from anabolic steroids to cocaine and elevated testosterone levels in a female athlete). Jessica is an appointed arbitrator to the Sports Resolution UK Development Member Panel.
