ARBITRATION AND SPORTS LAW

Journal: Malaysian Sports Journal (MSJ)
Author: Riya Gulati

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Doi: 10.26480/msj.01.2020.15.17

The objective of this paper is to understand how arbitration in the realm of sports law succours in reducing the workload of the ordinary courts(?) As compared to the court litigation, arbitration is often less expensive and faster way to resolve disputes as it is based on consensus. Arbitration does provide for a neutral forum to swiftly settle the disputes with procedural flexibility and finality which is vital for the international commercial dispute resolution. Hence, this paper will provide the crux of sports arbitration by providing a snapshot on the relevance of sports and need for sports law in India, unethical sporting practices, advantages of resolving sports dispute by means of arbitration and benefits of entrusting cases to the Court of Arbitration for Sports.