Article
English, French
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oai:doaj.org/article:1278cc9e322f4a8ea32c7056bc1360e5>
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DOI: <
10.1051/shsconf/20163203001>
Abstract
Sport is so regulated that, within each sports structure, there are committees or judicial bodies responsible for settling sports disputes which have become too recurrent; thus, each sports association, each national or international federation comprises within it a judicial body responsible for penalising its members on the basis of the rules which it has itself drawn up and which govern them, becoming a judge and therefore a party, in breach of the principle of the separation of powers so dear from Montesquieu. In view of this, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided in 1984 to set up a neutral, independent court for Sport, whose seat is in Lausanne, Switzerland; the latter is responsible for resolving sports disputes as a last resort by issuing awards that are without appeal. The IOC has also created, at the level of the National Olympic Committees, arbitration tribunals for sport whose jurisdiction is limited to the level of the States. The awards made by those courts may be challenged only at the CAS in Lausanne in Switzerland. Since then, sport stakeholders have been using legal remedies at international level either to international sports federations or, above all, to the CAS, which deals with disputes in all sports disciplines. The aim here is to draw up a non-exhaustive casuistic inventory of Cameroon’s contentious claims brought before the various international sports bodies; this will make it possible to question the procedural spirit and the technical quality of their legal complaints in sporting matters.