PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[slbsn]

The PL handbook stated exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts, which certainly doesn't rule out High Court then Supreme Court if needed, but County Court is unlikely :)

For disputes about the rules. City have already been to the High Court about disputes re the rules. But there is no provision to access the courts for disciplinary processes and the evaluation of charges.

 

[El_george]

I hope the lawyers working for City this week have a look at the Tevez to West Ham situation in 2006.

W. Ham were fined 5.5 million, but no points deduction, Sheffield United were relegated and they have struggled ever since in the lower leagues.

Just saying.

 

[SWP's back]

Seems pretty clear View attachment 68448

Am I reading this wrong then?

 

[meltonblue]

Still think the motivation behind some of it is more down to the state of the companies sponsoring us rather than us directly, which is what I find frustrating. None of it should have needed to happen.

 

[Vic]

Guilty without giving our side of the story

Alice in Wonderland stuff. Sentence first, verdict after. Oh, and no evidence heard yet.

 

[Corky]

For disputes about the rules. City have already been to the High Court about disputes re the rules. But there is no provision to access the courts for disciplinary processes and the evaluation of charges.

Maybe, but when it comes to it that will be for the court to decide, not the PL.

 

[chaddblue]

Oh come it’s his first post, I’m sure we can trust him

Not only his first post he joined at 4pm yesterday so definitely all true

 

[Silva2021]

That’s not quite right either. Right about JR not being directly applicable, but not right that the court can’t have a supervisory role and look into procedural elements of the decision making. The Fallon case is the one to look at. Essentially the HC would step into a JR style role. If they didn’t see evidence in PL decisions that the high standards needed to assert fraud/deliberate bad faith CAS did (see projectrivers previous post on that) then the HC could effectively make them. The court won’t be the final decision maker, they’d send it back to the PL. But the steer would be v clear.

Just my take as an (ex) lawyer with a bit of experience in this.

Oh, and Panncik represented Fallon ;-)

Pannick - The David Silva of lawyers, he’ll create an angle!!

 

[SWP's back]

For disputes about the rules. City have already been to the High Court about disputes re the rules. But there is no provision to access the courts for disciplinary processes and the evaluation of charges.View attachment 68451

I see, thanks.

Must say I am now far less confident although I know you have written that the fact it's an Arsenal ST holder shouldn't actually mean anything bad.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Are we sure about that?

What they're saying is 'You can appeal to our Kangaroo Court and that's it - we're going to screw you'. I have no legal qualifications but I reckon our lawyers will find a way of getting this to a proper courtroom.