Legal Update

On 30 May 2005, the FEI received notice from the Organising Committee of the World Endurance Championship, which was held in Dubai last January, together with Ms Barbara Lissarague (FRA), and the Fédération Française d’Equitation (the French Equestrian Federation), that they were jointly appealing the decision of the FEI Judicial Committee dated 28 April 2005 to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
 
The FEI Judicial Committee had dismissed the positive medication case of the horse Hachim ridden by HH Sheikh Hazza Bin Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (UAE), further to an irregularity in the legal procedure, when HH Sheikh Hazza was denied the possibility to send a witness to the laboratory to attend the confirmatory analysis.
 
Sheik Hazza Al Nahyan and Hachim won the World Endurance Championship and Barbara Lissarague (FRA) finished second.