Pravni aspekti pandemije Covid-19 i uticaj na postupak pred Košarkaškim arbitražnim tribunalom (BAT)
Legal aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and impact on the proceedings before Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT)

Summary/Abstract: Corona virus global pandemic has endangered basketball as the professional sport. Contractual Obligations have been shaded by the uncertainty of the global situation and in that sense, many question marks emerged. The Basketball Arbitral Tribunal offered some asnwers on the situation quickly and paved some directions. The Basketball Arbitral Tribunal is an international arbitration body formed to resolve contractual disputes arising in the basketball sports industry. BAT is already a significantly celebrated arbitration that has given its great contribution to the regulation of legal relations in basketball as a professional sport. New circumstances in the form of a global Covid-19 pandemic have put this arbitration to another important test and all the results of the work and solutions offered in BAT Covid-19 Guidelines are still subject to different opinions and interpretations. BAT responded to the situation publishing BAT Covid-19 Guidelines, which are main focus of this Article. The effects of BAT before the pandemic are indisputable, and most often its values are described through fast, efficient and safe dispute resolution with simple BAT rules of arbitration, which imply the existence of solutions that speed up and simplify the procedure, all built around many factors. Before the global corona virus pandemic, a respectable practice in resolving disputes was built, and a similar practice was continued based on the use of instructions published in the first two months of the pandemic.

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