In its ruling of 1 August 2025, Case C-600/23, Royal Football Club Seraing, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) established a fundamental principle: courts of the Member States must be able to exercise an effective and thorough judicial review of arbitral awards rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). 1. …
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Cass. com., 19 mars 2025, n° 23-23.507, publié au Bulletin Par un arrêt du 19 mars 2025, la chambre commerciale de la Cour de cassation confirme l’absence de rupture brutale dans le cadre d’une diminution progressive d’un volume d’affaires sur une période de préavis très étendue. Elle apporte ainsi une précision importante sur l’appréciation des …
Cass. com., 19 March 2025, No. 23-23.507, published in the Bulletin In a ruling dated 19 March 2025, the commercial chamber of the Court of Cassation confirmed the absence of a suddentermination in the context of a progressive decrease in business volume over a very long notice period. It thus provides an important clarification on …
In the context of a dispute between a football club and its jersey partner, the matter was referred to the Court of Cassation. The question raised before it was how to compare two competing offers from two sports suppliers. The Court of Cassation ruled that the comparison of two equipment suppliers' offers cannot be made …
La comparaison de deux offres d'équipementiers ne peut pas se faire sur les seuls éléments financiers. La comparaison doit se faire au regard des différents critères.
Les juges ne peuvent donc pas se fonder que sur les éléments financiers d’un contrat pour dire si une offre est mieux-disante, identique ou moins-disante qu’une autre offre.
By a decision of 11 July 2018 No. 17-10458, the Court of Cassation (french civil superior court) ruled on a dispute on the validity of a contract concluded between a football club and a sports agent which was concluded by exchanging e-mails. A sports agent company initiated proceedings against a professional football club to …
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La Cour de cassation a statué sur un litige relatif aux conditions de validité d’un contrat conclu entre un club de football et un agent sportif par des échanges d’e-mails ou de courriels
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