The Hon. Justice Annabelle Claire Bennett AC SC (1950)
Judge (Australia)
Eng
BSc (Hons), PhD (biochemistry-based), LLB, D Univ (hon Causa), D Laws (hon Causa); Consultant Barrister (Senior Counsel) and Mediator/Arbitrator; Present positions include Chair, Gardior Pty Limited (The Infrastructure Fund); Board Member, Garvan Institute of Medical Research; Board Member, Community Migrant Resource Centre; Former Judge, Federal Court of Australia; Former Chancellor, Bond University; Former President, NSW Anti-Discrimination Board; Former Chair, Advisory Group of Judges, World Intellectual Property Organisation; Member of the CAS ad hoc Divisions at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi (2014) and Beijing (2022) and Olympic Games in Rio (2016) and Tokyo (2020). |
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Mr John F. Boultbee (1950)
Lawyer (Australia)
Fr/Eng/Deu
Former Chief Executive of the National Sports Tribunal of Australia; LL.M – Master of Laws, London University; Former Barrister, former Secretary General of World Rowing (FISA); Former Director of the Australian Institute of Sport; Former Head of National Teams for Football Australia; Former High Performance Director of Volleyball Australia; Council Member of FISA 1998-2014, Executive Board Member of FISA 2004-2014, Chair of FISA Anti-Doping Tribunal 2014-2020; Member of the CAS Anti-Doping Division for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. |
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Judge Elizabeth Brimer KC (1970)
Judge (Australia)
Eng
Judge at the County Court of Victoria (2019- ); Vice President, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (2020- ); 20 years’ experience as a barrister and Senior Counsel; previously Code of Conduct Commissioner for Cricket Australia; Tribunal Member National Basketball League (Australia), Adjudicator Netball Australia, Chair Member Protection Tribunal and Member of Disciplinary Tribunal, Basketball Victoria; previously advised and appeared for the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, Racing Victoria, Harness Racing Victoria and Greyhound Racing Victoria. |
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Mr Bruce W. Collins (1948)
King's Counsel (Australia)
Eng
King's Counsel; Practicing Member New South Wales Bar Association Professional Conduct Committee; Australian Olympic Appeals Consultant; New South Wales Bar Association Advisor to the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong; Former Chairman New South Wales Rugby League Appeals Committee (1995-1996), Former Chairman, Sydney Cricket Association (2001-2007); Australian Olympic Appeals Consultant Summer 2008 and Winter Olympics 2010. |
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Mr John Didulica (1975)
Lawyer (Australia)
Eng
Master of Laws, University of Melbourne; Chief Executive of Professional Footballers Australia; Chair of North Geelong Warriors Football Club; Former Director of Football & General Counsel at Melbourne City Football Club; Former legal counsel to Football Federation Australia; Former member of the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber; Former professional footballer. |
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Mr James Drake KC (1959)
Barrister & Arbitrator (United Kingdom / Australia)
Eng
BA, University of South Australia (1980); LL.B (Hons), University of Adelaide (1985); LL.M, Columbia University (1992); Qualified in England & Wales, New York, New South Wales, South Australia, British Virgin Islands. Barrister and Arbitrator, 7 King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, London (called 1998, QC 2011); Former Partner, Owen & Davis LLC (New York) (now Norton Rose); Former Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie, New York and Sydney (1987-1993). |
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Justice Arthur Emmett (1943)
Judge (Australia)
Eng
Doctor of Laws; Queen's Counsel; Judge of the Federal Court of Australia; President, Copyright Tribunal of Australia; Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission; Lecturer, University of Sydney Law School; Former Conduct Commissioner, NSW Cricket Association (1990-2007). |
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Mr György Fehér (1964)
Attorney-at-law (Hungary / Australia)
Eng
Juris Doctor; Attorney-at-law; Partner, PRK Partners/Fábry Law Office, Budapest, Hungary. |
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Mr David Grace KC (1953)
Barrister and Solicitor (Australia)
Eng
Master of laws; Queens Counsel; Barrister; Co-Chair, Criminal Law Committee Law Council of Australia; Member, Court of Honour and former Vice-President of Maccabi World Union; Director of Athletics Australia; Team Advocate of Australian Olympic Team Athens 2004; Member of CAS ad hoc Divisions Commonwealth Games Melbourne 2006 and Winter Olympic Games Vancouver 2010; President of Athletics Australia; Member of the IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal. |
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Mr Lachlan V. Gyles SC (1963)
Barrister (Australia)
Eng
Barrister; Senior Counsel; Chairman Football Australia Disciplinary and Ethics Committee; Principal Member Thoroughbred Racing Appeals Tribunal (NSW); Acting Chairman National Rugby League Anti-Doping Tribunal and Appeals Committee; Judiciary Counsel National Rugby League Tribunal; Cricket NSW Disciplinary Sub-Committee. |
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Mr Bruce Hodgkinson SC AM (1957)
Barrister (Australia)
Eng
Senior Counsel (2001); Chairman of the Australian Rugby Union Players' Association; Member of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina Rugby (SANZAAR) judiciary panel (2000- ). |
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Mr Malcolm Holmes (1948)
Barrister (Australia)
Eng
B.A., LLB Sydney University, BCL, Oxford University, KC (1991); Appointed as the Athletes Advocate to the Australian Olympic Team at Atlanta in 1996; Member of the IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal; Adjunct Professor of International Arbitration at University of Queensland; Member of the FFA Appeals Committee; Director; Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; Member of the CAS ad hoc Division at the Summer Olympic Games, Athens 2004 and at the Winter Olympic Games, Turin 2006. |
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Dr Caroline Kenny KC (1959)
Chartered Arbitrator, Mediator, Barrister (Australia / Uruguay)
Eng
SJD - Doctor of Laws, Monash University; LLM – Master of Laws, University of Melbourne; Bar Admission (Australia / New York / England and Wales); King’s Counsel; Member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London; Counsellor and Attorney-at-Law, New York; Nationally Accredited Mediator; Fellow, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA); CIArb Regional Pathway Leader. |
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Mr James Kitching (1985)
Lawyer (Australia / Italy / United Kingdom)
Eng
LLB, University of Adelaide; International Master in the Management, Law, and Humanities of Sport, Centre International d'Etude du sport; Managing Director of The FC (2022- ); Board Member, Shooting Australia (2023- ); Supervisory Board Member, Boxing International Integrity Unit (2023- ); Supervisory Board Member, FIFA Clearing House SAS (2022- ); Chair, Basketball South Australia (2022- ); Chair, Independent Hearing Panel, Badminton World Federation (2017- ); Former Chair, National Dispute Resolution Chamber, Football Australia (2022-2025 ); Former Director of Football Regulatory, FIFA (2020-2022); National Federation Appeal Tribunal, Australian Olympic Committee (2016-2021); Former Member, National Dispute Resolution Chamber, Football Association of Malaysia (2019); Former Chair, Disciplinary and Ethics Committee, Saudi Arabia Football Federation (2018-2019); Former Member, Former Head of Sports Legal, Asian Football Confederation (2012-2017). |
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Ms Judith Levine (1975)
Lawyer (Australia / Ireland)
Eng
BA/LLB (UNSW), LLM (NYU), Independent Arbitrator; Member, National Sports Tribunal, Australia (2020- ); President (2019- ) and Director (2007- ), Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; Served as Chair, Co-Arbitrator in over 50 international investor-state, commercial and contract disputes; Former Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, Netherlands (2008-2019); Former Senior Associate, International Arbitration Group, White & Case LLP, New York (2003-2008). |
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Mr Anthony Lo Surdo SC (1964)
Barrister, Arbitrator, Mediator (Australia)
Eng
LLM; LLB; BA (Sydney), Senior Counsel (SC/KC) (Barrister) | Arbitrator | Mediator; Member Appeals Committee, Football Australia (FA) (2008- ); Co-Chair, FA Disciplinary and Ethics Committee (2008- ); Deputy Chair, FA Dispute Resolution Chamber (2022- ); Chair, Football NSW Appeals Tribunal (2011- ); Senior Member, National Sports Tribunal, Australia (2020- ); Member, Appeals Board AFL NSW/ACT (2012- ); Acting Racing Appeals Tribunal (NSW) (2019- ); Member of the CAS ad hoc Divisions at the Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia (2018), the Asian Games, Jakarta, Indonesia (2018), and the Asian Games Hangzhou, China (2023). |
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Ms Daisy Mallett (1979)
Arbitrator (Australia)
Eng
LLB Law, University of Sydney; Bar Admission (England, Wales and High Court of Australia); Independent International Arbitrator and Legal Counsel; Arbitration Steering Committee Member, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Australia; Chair of the Australian Center for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) Sustainability Task Force; Member of Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC) Panel of Arbitrators; Member of Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC) List of Arbitrators; ACICA Fellow. |
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Ms Elle Nikou Madalin (1986)
Barrister (Australia)
Eng
LLM; Deputy Chair and Arbitrator at the National Dispute Resolution Chamber (2021- ); Former Chair of the Selection Panel for the Tokyo Olympic Games (2020 & 2021); Former Tribunal Member of the Football Federation Victoria (2014-2017); numerous ad hoc appointments for various state and national sporting organisations in Victoria and Australia (including swimming, water polo, hockey, gymnastics and others). |
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Mr Hayden Opie (1953)
Sports Law Consultant and Educator (Australia)
Eng
Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne; Independent Member, Racing (Thoroughbred) Victoria Integrity Council (2018- ); Independent Member, Basketball Australia Hearing and/or Appeals Panels (2018- ); Member of the Board of Advisors of the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, USA (1993- ); Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Sports Policy and Research at Penn State University, USA (2008- ); Member of the Editorial Advisory Board on the International Sports Law Journal (2009- ), Director of Studies, Sports Law Program and Senior Lecturer in Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne (1987-2017); Founding President, Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association (1990-1998); Member of the Australian Federal Government Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel (2010-2015); Chairman of the Doping Control Tribunal of Athletics Australia (1992-1996); Member of the National Basketball League Appeals Tribunal, Australia (2010-2015). |
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Mr Ian Scott (1965)
Lawyer (Australia)
Eng/Jap
Admitted to the Daini Tokyo Bar Association Japan (Registered Foreign Lawyer); Senior Partner, Management Committee Member, Head of the Media, Entertainment and Sports law Practice Group, Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Atsumi & Sakai Law Firm; Executive Committee Member and Co-Chair of the Sports for Business Committee of the Australian & New Zealand Chamber of Commerces in Japan; Former Head of Legal & Rights Protection for the Rugby World Cup 2019; Former Managing Director of the World Rugby Japanese entity for the Rugby World Cup 2019; Former Manager/Consultant on International Business Affaires to FC Bayern München; Former Commercial Advisor to Japanese club Urawa Red Diamonds; Former volunteer and Director of Disabled Sporting Wheelies Association; Represented Australia in disabled sports. |
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His Honour Judge Rauf Soulio AM (1957)
Judge (Australia)
Eng
Judge, District Court of South Australia (2006- ): commercial, contract, administrative, civil, and criminal jurisdictions, and Head of court: mediation program; Judge, Equal Opportunity Tribunal; Judge, Licensing Court of South Australia; Auxiliary Justice, Supreme Court of South Australia (2022- ); Barrister in Supreme Court of South Australia (1981); High Court of Australia (1984); Roll of Solicitors, England and Wales (1990, 1981-1988); Solicitor; Former Barrister (1988-2006). Former Deputy Chair, Asian Football Confederation Entry Control Body (2016-2022); Former President, National Football Independent Banning Appeal Committee (2016-2020); Former President, Football Federation of South Australia (2008-2016); Former Chair, Disciplinary Committee, Disciplinary Appeals Committee, Player Contract Disputes Committee. Chair, Boxing and Martial Arts Advisory Board, government of South Australia (2000-2020); Former Chair, Boxing and Martial Arts Medical Reference Group (2000-2020). |
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Ms Zali Steggall (1974)
Barrister (Australia)
Eng/Fr
Barrister at Family Law chambers in Australia; Director Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) (1998-2002 2014- ); Director Sports Australia Hall of Fame (2015- ); Member ASADA Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel (2014- ); Vice Chair Football NSW Appeals Tribunal (2012- ); Member National Federation Appeal's Tribunal of the NOC of Australia (2009- ); Professional alpine skier (1989-2002); Winter Olympic Games 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002; Bronze medal Nagano 1998 Women's slalom; Gold medal 1999 World Alpine Championships Women's Slalom. |
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Mr Alan Sullivan (1951)
Lawyer (Australia)
Eng
Kings Counsel; Barrister at Sir Anthony Mason Chambers; Former Chairman, Australian Rugby League Judiciary Panel; Commissioner, Code of Behaviour, Australian Cricket Board. |
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Judge Robert John Weber SC (1957)
Judge (Australia)
Eng
Judge District Court of New South Wales; Formerly Senior Counsel at the New South Wales Bar and Chairman of various Australian Olympic Selection Appeals Committees; ad hoc Chairman of the Australian National Rugby League Appeals Tribunal. |
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Judge Mark L. Williams SC (1955)
Judge (Australia)
Eng
Judge of District Court of New South Wales, Sydney (2013- ); B.Com, LL.B. University of New South Wales; Barrister and Senior Counsel specialised in commercial and insurance litigation, and significant role in sports related disputes (1980-2013); Regularly served as counsel, Tribunal Member or Chair of Tribunal in selection, disciplinary and anti-doping tribunals; Member of the CAS Anti-Doping Division at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang (2018). |
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The Hon. Neil Young KC (1952)
Barrister-at-law (Australia)
Eng
LL.M.; King's Counsel; Barrister; Former President, Australian Bar Association; Former Chairman, Victoria Bar. |