УНН Sports ✎ Giulio Palermo visited Moscow before being appointed head of the CAS panel in the Russian hockey case. There is no direct evidence of bias. Italian lawyer Giulio Palermo, who chaired the panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the case concerning Russia's return to international hockey, visited Moscow shortly before the ruling was issued. The trip raised questions about the judge's impartiality.