The Case in a Nutshell

The decision 4A_164/2025 of 15 August 2025 of the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) concerns a civil law appeal against an arbitral award issued by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a doping matter. The underlying case involved a Hungarian professional swimmer who had been sanctioned by the Hungarian Anti-Doping Agency (HUNADO) with a four-year ban for a doping violation established on the basis of the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) programme.

Before the SFT, the appellant raised all five grounds of appeal available under Article 190.2 of the Swiss Private International Law Act (PILA), challenging the composition of the arbitral tribunal (lit. a), the jurisdiction of the CAS (lit. b), an alleged infra petita ruling (lit. c), violations of the right to be heard and the principle of equal treatment (lit. d), and incompatibility with public...

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