The phrase "a referee between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone or something that mediates or facilitates communication or resolution between two parties or groups.
Example: "In the negotiation process, she acted as a referee between the two conflicting sides to ensure a fair outcome."
Alternatives: "a mediator between" or "an arbitrator between".
Since he began a four-year term as chief justice last year, Justice Gongora has lobbied publicly for measures to reduce the court's workload and to strengthen its role as a referee between the executive and legislative powers.
Mr. Pataki has kept a low profile during the negotiations, but his aides say he has played an important role behind the scenes, not only encouraging Mr. Bloomberg to remain firm in his initial negotiations with Mr. Silver, but acting as a referee between Mr. Silver and Mr. Bruno.
However, a more politicised commission will raise questions about its role as an impartial arbiter (eg, on competition policy) and a referee between member-states, whether they be large or small, or of the left or the right.Although the federalists may gain more influence, Eurosceptics are also bound to gain in strength.
But, to do that, they need either an external midwife to act as a referee between all their constituent communities (who never developed trust in one another) as they try to replace sectarianism, Islamism and tribalism with a spirit of democratic citizenship or they need their own Nelson Mandela.
That's the independent agency that serves as a referee between corporations and unions like the CWA, which has about half a million members.
Each hockey game starts with a "face-off," in which the puck is dropped by a referee between two opposing players at close range.
This served Syrian officials, who have long preferred to have Washington intimately involved as a referee and go-between in any dealings with Israel.
The state approves the application and appoints two consultants: an intermediary to act as a policy referee between the state, the non-profit and the banks; and a fiscal agent to be the money referee.
Often Ms. Courvoisier's piano was a calm referee between high-tension outbursts from the strings.
But he insisted that the Supreme Court's recent decisions limiting the scope of federal power were more defensible than than those of previous eras of judicial activism, the 1930's and 1960's, because the court was merely acting as a "structural referee" between federal and state governments.
The function of the journalist, particularly on cable news stations, has become almost reduced to that of a mere referee between two talking or more frequently, shouting heads as they go at it with often scant regard for the factual accuracy of their talking points.
