Efraim Barak
Efraim Barak (Hebrew: אפרים ברק, born November 6, 1957) is an Israeli lawyer and member of The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). As such, he serves as arbitrator and as president of panels of the Court. He also served as arbitrator in the CAS Ad-Hoc Divisions at the Olympic Games in London 2012 and in Rio 2016. Barak is the founder and managing partner of a law firm that specializes exclusively in sports law.
Legal activity in the field of sports
International activity
In 2005, Barak joined and was appointed as arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), in Lausanne, Switzerland. In the framework of his work as arbitrator, he serves as arbitrator and as president of panels of the Court, also in fundamental and important cases of high public profile in the world of sports.
Among the proceedings in which he has served and were made public, in 2008 he served as president of the panel that granted the appeal of FC Barcelona and two other football clubs (FC Schalke & SV Werder Bremen), claiming that they had a right to not release their players to join their national teams for the Olympic Games that took place in 2008 in Beijing, including Barcelona player Lionel Messi..[1].
In 2010, he was the president of a panel, which, for the first time at CAS, dealt with a case of football match fixing, when the appeal of FK Pobeda (Macedonia), for being banned for eight years from UEFA club competitions and the appeal of its president, who was banned for life, were denied, while the sport sanctions imposed on the team's captain were annulled by CAS. [2].
In 2011, Barak was the president of a CAS panel that dealt with the appeal of the International Cycling Union (UCI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the professional cyclist Alberto Contador (Spain), who tested positive for the presence of a prohibited substance in his body during a test that took place during the Tour de France competition. [3].
In 2014, he was a member of the panel that rejected the appeal of FC Barcelona against the ban that was imposed by FIFA (banning transfer of players during two transfer windows), due to violations of the FIFA transfer regulations of players under the age of 18.[4]. In 2016, he was the president of a panel that also rejected an appeal of Atletico de Madrid Football Club for similar violations. [5]
As part of the Olympic Games in London (2012) and in Rio (2016), Barak was among the arbitrators from all over the world who were present on site and dealt with matters that arose before and during the Olympic Games in connection with the Games. In Rio 2016, he was a member of the first CAS Ad-Hoc Division, which dealt with cases of alleged use of prohibited substances during the Olympic Games.[6] [7]. By the end of 2018, Barak had been appointed as arbitrator and as president of panels in more than 270 international arbitrations, dealing with a variety of aspects in the world of sports.
In 2015, he was appointed a member of the UEFA Legal Committee.
[8]. Recently, he was chosen by the international rating website Who's Who Legal to be the sole Israeli lawyer that appears in a rating in the field of sports law, and was defined by WWL as one of the worldwide leading lawyers in the field of sports law. [9]
In the beginning of 2018, he founded a firm that deals exclusively with sports law, with an emphasis on international sports law.
Local activity
In 1995–2007, he was the legal adviser of Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club. In 2009–2010, he was a member of the Supreme Court of the Israel Basketball Association. Between 2014–2018, he was appointed as the General Counsel of the Israel Football Association, heading and dealing with the entire Israel Football Association's legal matters, in Israel and abroad. Among many other cases, he also represented the Israel Football Association in proceedings before The Supreme Court of Israel, in the appeal (which did not succeed), aimed at imposing a prohibition on football activities held on Shabbat due to religious reasons. [10]
References
- ↑ European clubs win appeal, Messi wants to play, The New York Times, August 6, 2008
- ↑ CAS makes landmark decisions in favour of Uefa to boost fight against match-fixing, Sport Ingintelligence, April 15, 2010
- ↑ Alberto Contador must wait six to eight weeks for Cas doping verdict, The Guardian, November 24, 2011
- ↑ Barcelona furious as Court of Arbitration for Sport upholds ban, ESPN, 30 December, 2014
- ↑ CAS confirms transfer ban imposed on Atlético de Madrid, Sports Integrity Initiative, 1 June, 2017
- ↑ First London 2012 case for Court of Arbitration for Sport ad hoc Division - SA told to include Peternell, LawInSport, 25 July, 2012
- ↑ RIO 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES, Court of Arbitration for Sport, 26 July, 2016
- ↑ Composition of the UEFA Organs and Bodies Mandate 2015-2019,p.24, UEFA, 1 November, 2018
- ↑ Who's Who Legal Sports & Entertainment: Sport, WWL
- ↑ Israeli soccer survives shabbat wars, Ynet, 9 September, 2015
External links
- Ruling and Publications by Efraim Barak, Arbitration Law
- REXSPORT website
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