The Seraing ruling creates exactly the external pressure needed to change sports dispute resolution culture. While institutions respond professionally to new uncertainty, smart operators are looking for alternatives. This might finally be mediation's moment in sports...
While legal experts debate the Seraing ruling's significance, there's a bigger opportunity emerging. The ECJ decision has made sports dispute resolution more complex and uncertain - exactly the conditions where mediation excels. This might be the watershed moment sports mediation has been waiting for....
Using mediation as a litmus test for client-centered legal representation. Discover how a lawyer's approach to mediation might reveal their true commitment to fiduciary duty and client interests versus their own financial gain....
A Football Transfer Dispute Ignited On Social Media - That Could Have Been Avoided With Mediation....
The decision by a mediator to withdraw from its role as ‘mediator’ demonstrates one key aspect of mediation that any party to a mediation can exercise (including the mediator) without any direct repercussion ……. and that is the right to walk away at any point....
Whilst it's welcome to hear that sport increasingly supports and utilises mediation, BUT the role played by the likes of in-house legal teams in sports organisations, their mediation understanding and the way in which they practice mediation is increasingly concerning in some cases....
In the absence of the suspended (FIFA) Agents Chamber, the question has to be asked as to where this leaves agents, their clients (whether players, managers/coaches, or even clubs) and any other related football party as and when a dispute arises – and ultimately does the suspension of article 20...
One of the biggest frustrations and concerns for many football participants (e.g. players, agents, managers, clubs) comes in regard to what happens if they are engaged in a dispute with another football participant. Can Football Participants Opt Out of Seemingly Prescribed Dispute Resolution Mechanisms?...
The FFAR dispute between FIFA and football agents could have been resolved (if not largely averted) long before now – and in a far more timely, efficient and cost-effective manner. That is if the values, attitudes, timelines, planning and approaches of all parties to the FFAR dispute had been better...
Some mediators may well believe that mediation can solve every dispute;but that is simply not the case, due to the variables that may exist in any dispute. All affecting when mediation is feasible in sports disputes, and when it is not?...
