Italian scorer's decision to skip court (5)
I believe the answer is:
verdi
'italian scorer's' is the definition.
(Giuseppe Verdi, someone who wrote scores)
'decision to skip court' is the wordplay.
'decision' becomes 'verdict' (verdict is a kind of decision).
'to skip' suggests deleting specific letters.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'verdict' with 'ct' taken away is 'VERDI'.
(Other definitions for verdi that I've seen before include "Emblem of the Knights Hospitallers" , "Drive (anag) - composer" , "Drive around with great opera composer" , "Composer of opera ''Rigoletto''" , "Italian composer, Giuseppe (1831-1901)" .)