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[Oz Referee]

Originally Posted by canuckref

The casebook I have is most definitely not a local thing. It is titled Fiba Casebook WORLD EDITION and is written by members of the FIBA World Technical Commission, for use in international play. You are relying on an old f.a.q. posted on fiba website that says there is no casebook...that info is seriously out of date.

I hate to repeat myself, but, there is no FIBA casebook. The casebook you refer to was written by Fred Horgan, the North American official rules interpreter. It applies ONLY to North American FIBA referees.

The reason for this is simple. While each country plays under FIBA rules, and usually implements the entire FIBA rulebook, there may be individual differences between FIBA member states. For example, when the possession arrow was introduced to FIBA rules, Basketball Australia (the local governing body) decided not to implement it as per the FIBA rules, but instead to wait 6 months - this was due to the timing of the rule change and the Australian basketball season. As a result, an official FIBA endorsed rulebook was published in Australia - while it was a FIBA publication, it only applied to Australia. In a similar way, the casebook that you have is a FIBA publication, but it is only relevant to FIBA North America.

FIBA only publishes 5 documents relevant to refereeing:

1. Official Basketball Rules 2006
2. Official Fitness Test for Referees
3. FIBA Official Basketball Rules 2006 - Official Interpretations
4. Offical Basketball Rules 2006 - Referees' Manual (2 person)
5. Offical Basketball Rules 2006 - Referees' Manual (3 person)

It also publishes 3 documents regarding the education of referees that are the scripts of the educaiton DVD's.

[gottaluvhoops]

Oz Referee
The casebook is published by FIBA, copyrighted by FIBA and edited by FIBA. So I am pretty confident there IS a casebook available to officials and it is not just for 2 countries. Perhaps your association did not want to spend the money.

Here is the contact information for getting copies:
FIBA
Chemin de Blandonnet 8
PO Box 715
CH-1214 Vernier
Geneva, Switzerland.
Telephone: 41 22 545 0000
email: [email protected]