Organisation: International Olympic Committee

David W Rivkin used an appearance at the IBA annual conference to criticise press coverage of the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s recent decision against Jordan Chiles – rejecting allegations that the US gymnast did not receive a fair hearing.  

20 September 2024

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has published a controversial award that saw US gymnast Jordan Chiles stripped of her Olympics bronze medal and caused a fierce media backlash against the institution and issuing tribunal – as the US team alleges that CAS did not provide it with conflict-of-interest disclosures made by chair Hamid Gharavi.

15 August 2024

Hamid Gharavi is at the centre of an ugly media storm after the French-Iranian arbitrator, who has represented Romania in international arbitrations, presided over a case at the Paris Olympics that resulted in a US gymnast being stripped of her bronze medal in favour of a Romanian competitor. 

14 August 2024

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has refused to overturn a six-point deduction imposed on the Canadian women’s football team at the Paris Olympics after it was found spying on a rival team’s training session.

01 August 2024

A Geneva appeal court has upheld guilty verdicts against British lawyer Matthew Parish and three other men over their involvement in a fake arbitration while reducing their sentences and acquitting one of his former associates.

22 January 2024

Thomas Buergenthal, who survived Auschwitz as a young boy before becoming a leading human rights law pioneer, International Court of Justice judge and arbitrator, has died aged 89. 

16 June 2023

Lawyers have condemned the decision of a Belarusian court to sentence local arbitration practitioner Aliaksandr Danilevich to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of criminal offences relating to his criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

13 April 2023

Zachary Douglas KC has left Matrix Chambers for 3 Verulam Buildings.

01 November 2022

A prominent international sports official and his former lawyer have received jail sentences after being convicted of forgery in Geneva over their role in a fake arbitration.

10 September 2021

The Games of the XXXII Olympiad have begun, played under the Olympic motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (faster, higher, stronger). But to what extent will the Tokyo Olympic Games also be litigious? Mark Mangan, Ananya Mitra and Miranda Elvidge of Dechert consider the categories of disputes that may arise. 

27 July 2021