Postępowanie dyscyplinarne przed Trybunałem Arbitrażowym do spraw Sportu przy Polskim Komitecie Olimpijskim. Zagadnienia ustrojowe i proceduralne.

Abstract

The doctoral dissertation entitled “Disciplinary Proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport of the Polish Olympic Committee. Systemic and Procedural Issues” was developed in the discipline of legal sciences at the Department of Criminal Procedure and Forensic Science of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz under the supervision of Dariusz Świecki, PhD habil., Assoc. Prof. (UŁ). The doctoral dissertation addresses the issue of sports disciplinary proceedings before the statutory adjudicating institution – the Court of Arbitration for Sport of the Polish Olympic Committee, hereinafter referred to as “the Court”. The doctoral dissertation presents systemic and procedural issues with particular emphasis on the legal issues of the appropriate application of the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act to sports disciplinary proceedings before the Court. The doctoral dissertation presents and discusses in detail the mode of proceedings in disciplinary cases before the Court, the procedural rules applicable to sports disciplinary proceedings, and also explains the evolution of the shaping of sports disciplinary proceedings before the Court in Poland. The legal analyses conducted in the doctoral dissertation are based on the results of research on the history, systemic and organizational structure of the Court, procedural rules in force in the proceedings in sports disciplinary cases, internal regulations of the Court relating to disciplinary cases heard before the Court. The doctoral dissertation presents in detail the course of examination proceedings before the Court in disciplinary cases, including the organization, scheduling and course of the hearing in a sports disciplinary case. The aim of the paper is to legally verify the real need for the functioning of the Court as a special constitutional adjudicating body, equipped by the legislator with competences to decide on appeals (complaints) against final disciplinary decisions of Polish sports associations.