Not sure about that - whilst Masters is obviously a bit of a cockwomble, he has absolutely zero to do with the tribunal process.
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PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules
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It is in a way as it has been brought up on appeal and they found them to be in the wrong.“The appeal board concluded that the independent commission's initial ruling in November 2023 ‘made legal errors’ on two grounds.”
That is not reassuring.
That’s a positive if our commission make legal errors.
I took it as a positive that there’s legal mistakes.I don't think this decision will have any real bearing on our case. Seen a few people express concern about the legal mistakes that have been made but I'm sure any similar errors against us will be ripped to shreds by our legal team. Besides, anything that undermines the credibility of the commission might not be a bad thing from our perspective.
The PL already made mistakes when first issuing our charges, as pointed out by our legal team.
Any lawyer/KC worth his salt would be on that quicker than flies on a scum fan : )
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Everton had the result sent to them last Monday, so they knew before Ornstein. It just wasn’t made public.So the senior leadership at the PL is still privately briefing the media in advance (or someone on the so-called independent panel) with confidential information which could financially impact on all clubs, especially those in the relegation zone. And apparently City are supposed to trust the PL and this corrupt process.
Not a lawyer, but is it at the stage that you can only appeal on "legal errors"?Any of our lawyers on here think "legal errors" is a particularly strange thing to say? Rather than say the appeals panel, for example, took a more lenient view of some of the mitigating factors.
Isn't it weird for an appeals panel chosen by the chairman of the judicial panel to say that an "independent" panel chosen by the same guy made two legal errors in a small number of findings. Doesn't reflect very well on anybody, imho.
Legal errors!
Sure I read that no new evidence could be presented, which means they're not retrying the case, they are only arguing that the original decision was made incorrectly.
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Not sure about that - whilst Masters is obviously a bit of a cockwomble, he has absolutely zero to do with the tribunal process.
Buck stops with him, I am afraid.
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Not a lawyer, but is it at the stage that you can only appeal on "legal errors"?
Sure I read that no new evidence could be presented, which means they're not retrying the case, they are only arguing that the original decision was made incorrectly.
Iirc, and I may not, I don't have the handbook to hand, you can appeal the IC decision on any grounds. Everton, however, accepted the breach, but contested the sanction.
There is a next process in front of a really independent tribunal where the arbitrators are chosen by both parties, like at CAS. I think this is the one that can only be activated on very limited grounds, one being an error of law.
Which is why I am surprised they used the "legal error" wording in the finding. They have set a precedent for legal errors on their very first case ....
Or this could all be bollocks. :)
Con-fid-entialI will bet all my money I have that our legal team have used phrases and words that masters has never even heard of, let alone spell.
Fair-ness
Organ-ised
Leg-al
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Really? How do you know that for certain?Not sure about that - whilst Masters is obviously a bit of a cockwomble, he has absolutely zero to do with the tribunal process.
Collusion is not an allusion-:)
Spot on….tens of thousands posting daily on social media declaring how they don’t care about City with the irony totally lost on the balloons.There’s plenty of them out there.
I ain’t bothered, it was expected.
I find it funny these days.
There’s that much venom directed at City from ‘these Arab's, oil money, empty seats, other clubs failings’ the list goes on and on.
But remember “no one cares about City” : )