CAS plans to open two new centres

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) plans to open new centres in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur.

The CAS recently opened an alternative hearing centre in Abu Dhabi.

CAS General Secretary, ailment Mathieu Reeb, medstore said the CAS wants to decentralise hearings and Asia was the first continent on the agenda.

“For the time-being we will only have three. We may have Alternate Hearing Centres in other regions of the world like South America or Africa, capsule ” he said.

Regarding Abu Dhabi, Reeb said: “When Asia was considered for the Middle East we had this proposal from the Abu Dhabi emirate and we were very impressed by the quality of their proposal and this is why we decided to establish an office here.

“The access to Abu Dhabi is quite easy with a good hub for air travel. Also, the quality of the hospitality, infrastructure, accommodation; It is really a good starting point for us in the Middle East.

“I think setting up this office here in Abu Dhabi will improve the knowledge about CAS and help to promote the development of the institutions in these regions, because people really do not know that arbitration is a good way to solve disputes in the sport field.

“We hope that with the opening of this Abu Dhabi centre in this part of the world there would be more knowledge about sports arbitration.”