Theoretical Foundations of Forensic Economic Expertise in Cases on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Athletes and Coaches

Abstract

The current circumstances and the prerequisites formed on their basis predetermined the need for an adequate degree of protection, including forensic economic expertise achievements, of athletes and coaches as the relationships in professional sports impaired by economic specifics could violate and affect their rights and interests. The paper substantiates both an independent system and structure for the application of special economic knowledge in cases related to disputes, in which the rights and interests of athletes and coaches are directly or indirectly affected, and a qualitative addition and enrichment of the theory of the class of forensic economic examinations. Based on law enforcement practice, which formed the empirical basis of scientific research on the subject of work, the fundamental directions for potential economic research were identified in the form of «typical» expert tasks. The author formulates the subject of forensic economic expertise in cases of protecting the rights and interests of athletes and coaches taking into account the above-mentioned tasks and special knowledge necessary to solve them.