NST Webinar – SIA Sanctioning Guidelines and Pittman v CombatAus

On 17 July 2024, Anthony Lo Surdo SC accepted an invitation by Dr Michelle Gallen, the CEO of the National Sports Tribunal (NST) to speak at a members’ only webinar on the Sport Integrity Australia Guidance for Sanctioning (Guidelines), introduced in January 2023. It has as its objective to provide a framework within which sports can approach the consideration of sanctions in (non-doping) disciplinary matters, in particular, in the safeguarding space.

Anthony’s decision in the matter of Pittman v CombatAus, delivered in March 2024, was the first decision of the NST which considered and applied the Guidelines. It obtained some extensive nedia coverage in Australia as Mr Pittman was an elite boxer and, at the time of the incidents the subject of the proceedings, was the National Boxing Coach.

A copy of the award appears here: https://www.nationalsportstribunal.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-04/jamie-pittman-v-combataus.pdf

Anthony is an inaugural member arbitrator, mediator and conciliator member of the NST.

He is a leading international sports arbitrator including as a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.