In a recent Sports and Leisure insight, Neil Blake, Mike McClure KC, and Jake Savile-Tucker consider the recent opinion by Advocate General Ćapeta in case C-600/23, a dispute between Royal Football Club Seraing and FIFA, and also Union Royale Belge des Sociétés de Football Association ASBL. The Advocate General proposes that awards by the Swiss Court of Arbitration for Sport must be open to full review by national courts for compliance with all EU laws. Although Advocate General opinions are not binding on the Court of Justice of the European Union, who will decide the case at a later date, if the Opinion is accepted by the CJEU, this would mean that CAS verdicts no longer reign supreme in sports arbitrations, entailing significant changes in sports law and, more broadly, the relationship between the sports industry and the EU.
Detailed discussion of the Opinion can be found here.
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