City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

Coatigan said:
www.thetimes.com

Man City hearing: Premier League officials told to disclose texts and emails

Senior officials hand over messages before November hearing into 115 charges against the club with separate hearing over City’s legal action against league set to begin on Monday
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Rinse, repeat, repeat.

Interesting bit if true about messages needing handed over.

Nice of the times to explain the arab link amongst all the baddie clubs.
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Is there actually anything that would have forced the PL to hand over such information in a complete way? What would have stopped them from deleting/hiding/not sharing any significant correspondence?

I naively ask this because this isn't a criminal matter, so it's not like the PL would be breaking any laws if they didn't play fair at this stage (I assume)
 
argyle said:
I don't for certain but legal proceedings aren't like the movies.

The idea they're be a smoking gun in their emails to end the 115 charges is very fanciful.
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Probably not, however they might reveal what always gets mentioned on bluemoon that there is a conspiracy against us, and if there is evidence this might be used as a bargaining tool against the 115, god knows, but it's certainly an interesting development
 
Sir peace frog said:
Probably not, however they might reveal what always gets mentioned on bluemoon that there is a conspiracy against us, and if there is evidence this might be used as a bargaining tool against the 115, god knows, but it's certainly an interesting development
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Very, very unlikely. In fact I'd say next to zero.

The disclosure of these things is standard stuff.
 



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Don Karleone said:



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Clearly I bow to his superior legal knowledge, but it seems strange to me this would be usual two-way discovery in a breach of contract case concerning financial irregularity?

Why would the independent panel require the claimant to hand over all emails concerning the respondent to determine if a contract clause has been breached? Unless part of the defence is that there had been a conspiracy against the club, but even then, what does it have to do with the actual charges? I am struggling with all this.

It makes more sense if this was about the APT case. There, it seems, part of the claim is about a conspiracy which would warrant disclosure of correspondence.

All a bit unclear to me.

Edit: The tagline to the main photograph in the article says this: "The legal action by City and their chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, left, has plunged the Premier League into crisis, with its chief executive, Richard Masters, told to disclose all communications referencing the club dating back to 2009." That would make more sense to me, but the text refers the disclosure to the 115 allegations. Confusing.
 
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NZBlue said:
One thing I don't think I've ever seen discussed in a positive light is that we have a number of sponsors from Abu Dhabi. It is always used as a stick to beat us with.

The reality is that our sponsorship department have actually got a strategy, not just a random scatter-gun approach.
If Etihad do well, the hotels in Abu Dhabi do well, so the tourism industry there does well. It becomes in everyone's interest to act together. How can you actually devise or apply a fair value test for one individual element of that synergy?
It is completely different from a simple single entity becoming the rags official toilet roll partner for example.

I suspect that this is an element of our upcoming case
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It shows excellence that companies from that region can dominate on the world stage. Same reason Bayern is backed by German companies & the same reason countries pay Athletes to win gold medals.
 
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