PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[JPAMCR]

If the PL had a “smoking gun” then this would all be done and dusted by now, and there’d be no need for the non-cooperation charge as they’d already have the evidence they needed.
It suits us for this to go all the way to the panel and when we’re cleared we can point out that we followed the process as required, with nothing to hide and no shady payoffs to shit it down. Won’t make a difference to the moronic Harris and his clown mates or the dickhead scousers and rags who NEED us to be found guilty though. But who gives a fuck about them.

 

[halfcenturyup]

True but doesn't it have to be criminal activity to void the time bar?

Time limitation is purely a civil law thing. There is no limitation in criminal law.

I think :)

 

[Chris in London]

Really? Well blow me down. So how did the PL end up with the leading sports QC and we got bloody Pannick? :)

£££

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It is not unprecedented for a claim to be zealously pursued (or defended) even though the prospects of success are not great.

Some cunts in PI make a living out of it!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Nope.

Cab rank rule.

More honoured in the breach than the observance.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Time limitation is purely a civil law thing. There is no limitation in criminal law.

I think :)

There is for most offences actually.

 

[halfcenturyup]

There is for most offences actually.

Magistrates courts?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Magistrates courts?

Yes, most specifically six months from the date of the offence via section 127(1) of the Magistrates Court Act 1980, plus a load of regulatory offences which have a greater time limit, sometimes up to a couple of years.

 

[Bez]

No, I am telling you that they may have done. it depends on what is motivating them.

It is not unprecedented for a claim to be zealously pursued (or defended) even though the prospects of success are not great.

I agree. It is entirely possible that the predominant thrust of the PL bringing 115 charges against City is a malicious attempt to do harm to the club even though the legal advice probably indicated that the PL's prospect of success was relatively low. The PL have a billion quid in the bank. That's their war chest. The PL can afford the legal bills and there are lawyers who will take the challenge on because they are being paid very well and for a very lengthy period of time win or lose.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Nope. Civil fraud is definitely a Thing.

Indeed it is. I've said before that the three directors of a company I worked for went to prison for 14 years between them for covering up losses and therefore presenting false and misleading accounts. They didn't enrich themselves by this fraud,