2008/A/1447 - Tribunal Arbitral du Sport / TAS

CAS 2008/A/1447
E.. v. Diyarbakirspor Kulübü,
award of 29 August 2008
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On January 23, 2008 the CAS acknowledged receipt of the Respondent's letter and invited him on
or before February 4 to tell CAS if this was his answer to the appeal or, if not, to file his answer
within the same time limit. Moreover, the CAS noted that the Respondent did neither raise any
objections to the appointment of a sole arbitrator nor with respect to the application of Swiss law.
Consequently, it informed the parties that a sole arbitrator would be appointed by the President of
the Appeals Arbitration Division and that Swiss law would be applicable in addition to the relevant
regulations.
On February 1, 2008 the Respondent filed its answer to the appeal again requesting that the Player's
appeal be rejected
On April 1, 2008, the Sole arbitrator invited FIFA to lodge a copy of its file related to this matter.
On April 3, the CAS received a copy of the statement of additional facts dated March 25, 2008 filed
by the Counsel for the Appellant.
On April 24, 2008 the Respondent submitted exhibits, in both English and Turkish and alleged that
the appeal should be rejected “according to CAS, FIFA and Swiss law”.
On June 3, 2008 on behalf of the Sole Arbitrator, the CAS asked the Respondent to provide the
CAS Court Office before June 9, 2008 with a clear listing of the submitted documents, particularly
indicating for each of the numbered exhibits whether the document had been filed with FIFA and
for the exhibits written in another language than English, whether an English translation had already
been produced or not. Moreover, it invited the Respondent to file the translations in English for the
documents that were part of the FIFA file before June 12, 2008, under the penalty of not
considering them. Finally, on behalf of the Sole Arbitrator, the CAS indicated that failure to comply
with the deadlines would entail their non-consideration.
Nevertheless, the Respondent did not comply with the above-mentioned requests of the CAS.
On June 23, the Appellant submitted exhibits and rejected the evidence presented by Respondent
on April 24, 2008.
On July 11, 2008 the Parties were requested to sign and return by fax a copy of the Procedural
Order to the CAS Court Office on or before July 18, 2008.
On July 24, 2008 the CAS Court Office informed the parties of the Sole Arbitrator's decision
regarding the documents filed by the parties in April and June 2008. Firstly, the documents filed on
April 24, 2008 were found inadmissible after considering the Appellant's objection to them and the
fact that no exceptional circumstances were alleged for the late filing. However, the documents that
had been part of the FIFA file that were in English were included in the CAS file. Regarding the
documents filed by Appellant on June 23, 2008, the CAS notified the parties that, since the
Respondent raised no objections, their production was admitted. Finally, the CAS Court Office
requested that the parties returned by fax a signed Order of Procedure on or before August 4, 2008.