Dr. Muhammad Basim, President of the Saudi Sports Arbitration Center, confirmed that cases are treated on a confidential basis and it is not possible to talk about pending cases in the media, noting that publication on the center’s website will be codified in accordance with the system and procedural rules.
It came during a press conference held by the head of the Sports Arbitration Center today, Wednesday, to talk about the many issues that have occupied sports street lately, the most notable of which was the rejection of the Al Hilal club’s provisional measures. , and the crisis of the referee Sultan Al-Samel to get out of the case between the clubs Al-Nasr and Al-Ittihad.
Dr. Muhammad Bassem made it clear that he would not speak or consider any pending case as it was handled in complete secrecy and stressed that the rules should not be broken in the case of Moroccan specialist Abdel Razzaq Hamdallah.
And on the crisis of provisional measures, which were rejected by the Al Hilal Club, he said: “An interim measure is the power of the arbitral tribunal, and it takes steps to provide guarantees to all parties, and this is a way to file an expedited arbitration. ”
And the head of the Center for Sports Arbitration continued: “The question of taking any interim measure belongs to the arbitral tribunal and the grounds presented to it, and no one can evaluate it, except for what the parties present from the objections and documents, and all parties are given the right to hear, and that’s one of the things we emphasize in the center.”
On the reasons for the resignation of the arbitrator Sultan As-Samil, he said: “I cannot reveal because of this a secret principle from which we will not deviate.”
And Bassem added: “We will go to the judiciary for any abuse that affects the members of the Sports Arbitration Center and we also strive to ensure that no procedure in the center is violated and each case is different from the other due to reasons and payments. therefore there is a discrepancy in the timing of judgments between cases.”
