National courts must be empowered to carry out, at the request of litigants or even of their own motion, an in-depth legal review of the compatibility of arbitration awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) with EU public policy, ruled the Court of Justice of the EU in a judgment (C-600/23) on Friday 1 August.
The Court pointed out that, in the field of sports, the submission of disputes to arbitration is generally not freely accepted, but unilaterally imposed on athletes and...