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However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport overruled that in 2015 and Mutu was found to be liable.
With no other options, Mutu appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that the CAS should not be considered an independent and impartial tribunal.
The European Court of Human Rights then judged that Mutu had "not been forced to accept the CAS’s jurisdiction” but also had not “waived in a non-equivocal manner the right to have his case heard by an independent and impartial tribunal, in that he had requested the withdrawal of the arbitrator chosen by Chelsea".
Interestingly, one of the members of the panel during his appeal was partner in a law firm that represented the interests of Chelsea's owner, Roman Abramovich.
The panel had to decide whether the Court of Arbitration for Sport failed in its role as an impartial body.
To paraphrase, “the Federal Supreme Court had concluded that Mr Mutu had not substantiated his allegations” against CAS, and “there had therefore been no violation of the applicants’ Article 6 § 1 rights”.
The court ruled “Mr Mutu’s complaints under Articles 4 § 1 and 8 showed no appearance of a violation of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention or its Protocols and had therefore to be declared inadmissible”.
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