Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes

The relation to the infinite variety issues sprouting in sports or lex sportiva, like lex mercatoria in the early centuries, has now come of age and even begun a maturing process in the past thirty-five years or so. Lex sportiva now straddles sports management, sports medicine, tort, criminal law, e...

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Main Author: Shair Mohamed, Mohd. Akram
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: UniSZA 2015
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spelling iium-433722016-05-14T07:55:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/43372/ Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes Shair Mohamed, Mohd. Akram K Law (General) The relation to the infinite variety issues sprouting in sports or lex sportiva, like lex mercatoria in the early centuries, has now come of age and even begun a maturing process in the past thirty-five years or so. Lex sportiva now straddles sports management, sports medicine, tort, criminal law, employment contract, competition law and a host of multifarious activities related to sports. This has catapulted a host of legal issue and problems, demanding urgent legal solutions to actual or potential disputes. This paper briefly discusses the nature and development of lex sportiva, and how it is able to resolve sports disputes. Resolving sports dispute via the tiresome, dilatory and expensive process of litigation is most unsuitable. Arbitration may not be equally a satisfactory solution. The paper strongly advocates the far the most effective and resolution friendly mode of settling sports disputes is mediation. In support it highlights numerous advantages mediation has to offer. UniSZA 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/43372/1/mediation_as_an_effective.pdf Shair Mohamed, Mohd. Akram (2015) Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes. In: 4th International Conference on Law & Society (ICLAS IV) 2015 , 10th-11th May 2015, Kuala Trengganu. https://www.unisza.edu.my/iclas2015/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured
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Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes
description The relation to the infinite variety issues sprouting in sports or lex sportiva, like lex mercatoria in the early centuries, has now come of age and even begun a maturing process in the past thirty-five years or so. Lex sportiva now straddles sports management, sports medicine, tort, criminal law, employment contract, competition law and a host of multifarious activities related to sports. This has catapulted a host of legal issue and problems, demanding urgent legal solutions to actual or potential disputes. This paper briefly discusses the nature and development of lex sportiva, and how it is able to resolve sports disputes. Resolving sports dispute via the tiresome, dilatory and expensive process of litigation is most unsuitable. Arbitration may not be equally a satisfactory solution. The paper strongly advocates the far the most effective and resolution friendly mode of settling sports disputes is mediation. In support it highlights numerous advantages mediation has to offer.
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title Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes
title_short Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes
title_full Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes
title_fullStr Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes
title_full_unstemmed Mediation as an effective tool for resolving sports disputes
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