National Anti-doping Panel
Welcome to the National Anti-Doping Panel, the independent body established to determine anti-doping disputes in sport in the United Kingdom. The NADP has three main purposes:
- To improve the quality and consistency of tribunal decision making in anti-doping cases.
- To protect NGBs from the conflicts inherent in both prosecuting anti-doping cases and in establishing and administering tribunals to decide these cases.
- To remove the financial & administrative burden from NBGs of managing their own anti-doping panel & tribunals.
NADP decisions must not be published or reproduced by third parties, except with the express agreement of the NADP or all the parties directly concerned by the decision in question.
Improving the quality and consistency of decision making
Once an athlete has responded to a notice of charge and has requested a hearing, UK Anti-Doping makes a request for arbitration to the Secretariat of the National Anti-Doping Panel (“NADP”). Referral documents are forwarded by the Secretariat to the NADP President, Peter Leaver QC, who selects tribunal member(s) from the 16 strong list of lawyers (legal members) and, doctors, scientists and retired athletes (specialist members) that make up the National Anti-Doping Panel.
NADP Procedural Rule Change
Following a review of the National Anti-Doping Panel (“NADP”) Procedural Rules by the President of the NADP, Procedural Rule 11.2 has been amended.
