Many jurisdictions around the world have adopted public policies in favor of arbitration, which limit the scope for courts to interfere in arbitral awards. Sports-related arbitral awards, like commercial arbitral awards, may typically only be challenged on a limited number of grounds, the specific grounds depending on the laws of the seat of the arbitration, the courts of which have exclusive authority to vacate or set aside these awards.
This article will consider the importance of Swiss law in bringing challenges in sports-related arbitrations, including the grounds for vacatur, correction and revision of awards under the Swiss Private International Law Act; the grounds for opposing the recognition and enforcement of sports-related arbitral awards under the New York Convention, and challenges to sports-related arbitral awards outside of Switzerland, with a particular focus on the United States.
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