City launch legal action against the Premier League | City win APT case (pg901)

[jrb]

I can’t believe Roy is involved in this?

 

[Don Karleone]

I can’t believe Roy is involved in this?

I wouldn't put anything past that crafty old git.

 

[cheekybids]

Planning to discuss this with Simon on Tuesday. He seems to have some strong feelings!

Can you do me a favour & say

“I don’t know why you can’t grasp it Simon, Danny Murphy understood the finer points immediately.”

 

[deano ou812]

With the latest revelations of Masters and the PL having to reveal text and WhatsApp messages etc have our UAE owners used their political clout and got MI5 involved here ?
Just a thought ……

It’s a load of sensational bollocks ffs just step back and think about it ..

 

[halfcenturyup]

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.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Disclosure of communications may well be standard but I’m not having it that 15 years worth of them would be standard.

I’d expect any communications that pertain to the issue(s) under investigation to be standard but not everything in the last 15 years.

 

[cheekybids]

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

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.

 

[cheekybids]

Ask to see all communication from his phone surrounding City beforehand.

I have wondered if this will lead to disclosure from others as the net widens….

Text messages from Levy & Parry to Jordan.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I have wondered if this will lead to disclosure from others as the net widens….

Text messages from Levy & Parry to Jordan.

Sounds like it’s standard procedure, sadly.

Doesn’t mean we don’t have some doozies ready to go, but time will tell.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I have wondered if this will lead to disclosure from others as the net widens….

Text messages from Levy & Parry to Jordan.

Jordan's ott reaction to City's claim did make me wonder if his friend Levy is worried about how all this is going to end up .....