We are genuinely pleased to announce our recent success in a challenging sports dispute that might hold a significant importance for overall jurisprudence. In this case, we represented a national team volleyball player against a club before the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV). The case revolved around the invalidity of the Player’s financial waiver within the […]
We are pleased to announce that the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has upheld the appeal of Nikola Djurdjic v. Chengdu Rongcheng against the FIFA DRC Decision. This case involved peculiar contractual negotiations, unusual image rights agreement concluded through a third party, all within specific procedural timeframe. Following the Club’s termination without just cause, […]
We are thrilled and proud to announce that our client, Mrs. Ana Zivojinovic (the “Player”) succeeded in the CEV dispute against a Greek volleyball club Olympiacos (the “Club”). The case involved a clause preventing the Player to become pregnant, as well as the unilateral deduction of the Player’s salary due to the eruption of the […]
We are honored to share that our firm successfully represented Mr. Denis Klinar (the “Player”) in a litigation against agent Milomir Curcic and an agency from Andora MICU Strategy (the “Agents”). Prior to the dispute, the Agents had been involved in the Player’s transfer from Olimpija (Slovenia) to Puskas Academy (Hungary), after which the parties […]
We are delighted to announce that our firm successfully represented a Serbian player in a CAS arbitration against a foreign club (the Parties wished to remain anonymous). The case involved regular football issues of non-payment of salaries, training alone and requirements for contract’s validity. After being dissatisfied with the Player’s performances, the Club decided to […]
We are proud to announce that our partner Filip Blagojevic successfully represented Mr. Nikola Stankovic (the “Player”) in a dispute against AE Larissa (the “Club”). Apart from regular contractual stability issues, this case involved a jurisdictional debate related to the actions of the Hellenic football federation (the “HFF”) amidst the COVID-19 outbreak in Greece. In […]
We are delighted to announce that our partner Filip Blagojevic successfully challenged the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber Decision in a dispute between a Serbian football player Milos Jokic (the “Player”) and a Greek football club PAS Lamia (the “Club”). Although the dispute arose from the shortest possible document, a pre-contract that contained only one sentence […]
We are proud to announce a successful representation of Nemanja Nikolic in the CAS arbitration 2019/A/6554, which followed the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (the “DRC”) dispute between a football player Nemanja Nikolic (the “Player”) and an Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv (the “Club”). The case involved several legal issues, which were complex from both procedural […]
Because of state of emergency, declared on March 17, 2020, the Serbian Ministry of Justice issued Recommendations on the work of courts and public prosecutor’s offices during the state of emergency. As to civil cases, a recommendation was given to postpone the hearings, save for the following cases: (i) cases defined as urgent under a […]
We are happy to inform that Ms. Dinic fully succeeded in the dispute against the German volleyball club SWE Volley from Erfurt, which was conducted before the CEV. The case involved issues of the premature unilateral termination under the ex aequo et bono principle, which was overlapping with the German legislation on issuing working and […]