Independent committees, justice and CAS

Module 8: How FIFA is governed

Lesson four covers the checks on power: the Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee, the judicial bodies, the Football Tribunal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the ban on ordinary courts. Articles forty-two to fifty-three.

In this lesson

• Independent oversight and justice
• Article 48: Football Tribunal
• Article 50: Jurisdiction of CAS
• No ordinary courts
• Where agents appear in the Statutes