PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Newman Noggs said:
Loved the last line.

As regards the rest, I guess we can only talk from our personal experience. My experience of instructing both public and private sector lawyers, is that, financial considerations permitting, I would choose the latter to act for me every time.

You point about good and bad is true, of course, and applies across the working population as a whole but, frankly, the personal work/life balance of the person I'm instructing matters less to me than their commitment to winning my case.
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‘Every time’ is a bold statement. There are plenty of lawyers in the private sector who are a fucking liability!

I take your point about the work/life balance not mattering to you, and why should it, but my point was that someone who isn’t consumed by their career, and advancement within it, isn’t necessarily an inferior lawyer to someone who is. There are plenty of highly capable lawyers to whom their career isn’t everything. That doesn’t mean they aren’t suitable, or even ideal, to instruct in a particular field.
 
Jazzman said:
Firstly, I need to say that I am not a lawyer. Secondly, that English is not my first language. However my subjective gut feeling about that Daily Mail article was that it did not clearly enough talk about the In Dubio Pro Reo principle and what should mean for the City case. I thought the article was somewhat written to the taste of the Mail readers who want to see City punished.
Is that completely misunderstood dear Mr. Projectriver?
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Well the article was published 18 months before the PL charge so I’d suggest it was ultimately proved to be a solid overview at that stage. As for the legal principles at play, I’d say the Substack was pretty clear on those points but for others to decide.
 
Random Precision said:
Didn’t realise it had been posted, a legal challenge against FFP and FMV needs to be made. Nick De Marco knows his shit, it only favours the old top four clubs, time it was gone.
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And yet by far the most successful club in England over the past 10 years isn’t one of the old top four clubs so I’m not sure FFP has benefited them quite as much as you think. Our neighbours down the road, for example, could arguably have spent more money in the summer but were prevented from doing so not because they couldn’t afford to but because they had to get more players off their books for FFP purposes. A kind of delicious irony, given that they were one of the clubs who were desperate for FFP to be brought in as they stupidly thought it would cement their place at the top table forever.

Edit: Just realised that you’re a Newcastle fan, so I can fully understand your reservations about FFP. We were more fortunate in that we were already well on our way to smashing the old cartel when the rules were brought in, whereas Newcastle were starting from a much lower point in terms of revenues and league position when you were taken over a couple of years ago.
 
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