During its Human Rights meeting of June 2020, the Committee of Ministers decided to end the supervision of the execution of the European Court’s judgment in Mutu and Pechstein v. Switzerland. This case concerned a violation of the right to a fair trial on account of the failure to hold a public hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), situated in Lausanne, in disciplinary anti-doping proceedings against a professional speed skater and the subsequent upholding of this decision by the Swiss Federal Court.
In response to this judgment, the CAS adopted new procedural rules allowing public hearings at the sole request of the athlete if the dispute is of disciplinary or ethics nature. Following these amendments, a public hearing took place on 14 November 2019 in the case of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) v. Sun Yang and FINA.
