Caster Semenya’s legal team have hit out against the IAAF for releasing their list of expert witnesses before their battle with the international athletics federation in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne this week.
Her law firm Norton Rose Fulbright castigated the IAAF for disclosing the names of their experts before the arbitration proceedings which was not supposed to be made public.
“The arbitration proceedings are subject to strict confidentiality provisions and this information should not have been released,” Norton Rose Fulbright said.
“Ms Semenya believes the IAAF press release is a clear breach of the confidentiality provisions, orchestrated in an effort to influence public opinion in circumstances where the IAAF knew that Ms Semenya would not be prepared to respond because she was complying with her confidentiality obligations.”
The CAS has since granted Semenya’s legal team permission to release information responding to the IAAF release as
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