pravoПравоприменениеLaw Enforcement Review2542-15142658-4050Dostoevsky Omsk State University10.52468/2542-1514.2024.8(1).131-139pravo-893Research ArticleПРАВОПРИМЕНЕНИЕ В МЕЖДУНАРОДНОМ ПРАВЕTHE LAW ENFORCEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAWОтказ от применения норм Европейской Конвенции о защите прав человека и основных свобод при разрешении споров в Спортивном арбитражном суде (CAS)Waiver to apply the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the resolution of disputes in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)ВасильевИ. А.VasilyevI. A.

Васильев Илья Александрович – кандидат юридических наук, доцент, доцент кафедры теории и истории государства и права 

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199034, г. Санкт-Петербург, Университетская наб., 7/9

Ilia A. Vasilyev – PhD in Law, Associate Professor; Associate Professor, Department of Theory and History of State and Law

ResearcherID: I-7480-2013; Scopus AuthorID: 57196348447

7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034

i.vasilev@spbu.ruСанкт-Петербургский государственный университетРоссияSt. Petersburg UniversityRussian Federation20242203202481131139Copyright © Васильев И.А., 20242024Васильев И.А.Vasilyev I.A.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://enforcement.omsu.ru/jour/article/view/893

Спортивные правоотношения, как обладающие частноправовой юридической природой и предполагающие «горизонтальные» межсубъектные связи, по умолчанию не предполагают распространения на них гарантий, предусмотренных международными актами в сфере защиты прав человека в целях защиты личности в «вертикальном» взаимодействии с публичными субъектами. Однако названный доктринальный подход попрежнему вызывает сомнения со стороны субъектов спорта, предпринимающих попытки его опровержения через вовлечение в спортивные споры в качестве аргументов отдельных норм Европейской Конвенции о защите прав человека и основных свобод (ЕКПЧ) (полноценно ст. 6 и 8 прежде всего). Дополнительным стимулом к таким инициативам выступает расположение подавляющего числа международных и континентальных спортивных федераций, их юрисдикционных органов и самого Спортивного арбитражного суда (CAS) в национальных правопорядках, признающих применение ЕКПЧ. Перспективы аргументации при разрешении спортивных споров, построенной на требованиях буквального применения норм ЕКПЧ, рассматриваются в статье с опорой на правоприменительную практику CAS. В заключение делается вывод об использовании только отдельных смыслов ч. 1 ст. 6 ЕКПЧ в спортивном правосудии, тогда как остальные статьи ЕКПЧ обоснованно игнорируются в процессе правоприменительной практики юрисдикционных инстанций спортивных федераций и CAS.

The subject

The subject. Sports legal relations, as having a private legal nature, and assuming “horizontal” inter-subject relations by default, do not imply the extension to them the guarantees provided by international acts in the field of human rights protection in order to protect the individual in “vertical” interaction with public subjects. However, this doctrinal approach is still questioned by sports actors, who make attempts to refute it through the involvement of certain norms of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) (Articles 6 and 8, mostly) as arguments in sports disputes. An additional incentive for this is the location of international and continental sports federations, their jurisdictional bodies and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the national legal orders that recognize the application of the mentioned ECHR.

The purpose of the study

The purpose of the study. The prospects of arguments in the resolution of sports disputes based on the requirements of the literal use of the norms of the ECHR are considered in this article.

Methodology

Methodology. Methods of analysis and comparison based on the CAS practice.

The main results of research and the field of their application. The use of only certain meanings of part 1 of Article 6 of the ECHR in sports justice is forced to be taken into account by CAS due to the prospect of appealing decisions to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.

Conclusions

Conclusions. The norms of the ECHR generally do not apply in sports justice.

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