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ESI 1 v ESI 2 - Initial Hearing 01-02/09/2020, Court of Appeal 17/09/2020 (p127)

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  • Can the appeal be deemed frivolous? 🙂
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    Can the appeal be deemed frivolous? 🙂
    If that was the case the judge wouldn’t have given them 7 more days .
  • Talal said:
    I would imagine PE’s team are going to be playing this tactically, they need to take as much time as possible to submit the appeal but ensure they leave enough time to get a decision before the 7 days.
    Maybe I'm missing something but why do they need to take as much time as possible to submit the appeal? I'd have thought they'd want to get it in pretty sharpish so there's less risk of the COA not deciding before Wednesday. 
    Following this would it be possible to perhaps waste there time or would they have already have the appeal ready? IE flood them with telephone and email enquiry to waste there time.
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    Talal said:
    I would imagine PE’s team are going to be playing this tactically, they need to take as much time as possible to submit the appeal but ensure they leave enough time to get a decision before the 7 days.
    Maybe I'm missing something but why do they need to take as much time as possible to submit the appeal? I'd have thought they'd want to get it in pretty sharpish so there's less risk of the COA not deciding before Wednesday. 
    Following this would it be possible to perhaps waste there time or would they have already have the appeal ready? IE flood them with telephone and email enquiry to waste there time.

    This doesn't make sense?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I once heard the term 'vexatious litigation', which is supposed to be some kind of naughty legal carry on which is recognised in law as naughty. Something like using legal process, I suppose using loopholes and further opportunities to the nth degree in order to continue to pursue an unwinnable and reasonably decided case.
    Are these Lex Dominican Monks going into vexatious litigation waters?
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,805
    I’d say they are close @seth plum and certainly I think they are pushing in it but unfortunately I don’t think that is provable because all the dealings where Farnell is involved seem to be slightly off record and the fact that they are all proven to be super self interested and rip off merchants (balance of evidence proves that) is difficult to apply specifically to us. We know they are ripping the shit out us and the legal system but that’s hard to prove. 
  • seth plum said:
    I once heard the term 'vexatious litigation', which is supposed to be some kind of naughty legal carry on which is recognised in law as naughty. Something like using legal process, I suppose using loopholes and further opportunities to the nth degree in order to continue to pursue an unwinnable and reasonably decided case.
    Are these Lex Dominican Monks going into vexatious litigation waters?
    A vexatious litigant is someone who constantly brings cases to court, most of them completely groundless. 
  • Thanks @Blucher your detailed insights have been much appreciated on this thread. 
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    mendonca said:
    Talal said:
    I would imagine PE’s team are going to be playing this tactically, they need to take as much time as possible to submit the appeal but ensure they leave enough time to get a decision before the 7 days.
    Maybe I'm missing something but why do they need to take as much time as possible to submit the appeal? I'd have thought they'd want to get it in pretty sharpish so there's less risk of the COA not deciding before Wednesday. 
    Following this would it be possible to perhaps waste there time or would they have already have the appeal ready? IE flood them with telephone and email enquiry to waste there time.

    This doesn't make sense?
    I think he means ‘their’.
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  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,616
    I think the phrase rhymes with clucking bell 
  • After going to the pub tonight (and just returned not reading the previous few hundred posts)  I thought I'd not really care what happened today but it still rankles that there is a possibility that some people are in it just for the money and have no regard for the best interests of the club.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    Thanks Blucher.

    You make it sound pretty straightforward.

    Unfortunately nothing is where Charlton are concerned.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,805
    While o agree he would have found such comments, o am not sure that he should have been allowed to admit them as new evidence today particularly given he refused to admit similar evidence yesterday.
  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,333
    While o agree he would have found such comments, o am not sure that he should have been allowed to admit them as new evidence today particularly given he refused to admit similar evidence yesterday.
    Agreed. Anything posted on social media is conjecture
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,624
    castrust said:
    Very helpful summary that answers some key questions.
    Grounds for cautious optimism that the delay should be just 7 days. Bad enough for Lee Bowyer and the team but hopefully not material to TS’s determination to buy CAFC.
    Can the COA increase the injunction time so as to give time to hear the appeal  ?  All that is happening next week is that a judge sitting at the COA is deciding whether an appeal can go ahead. If he/she decides that it can surely they will say the injunction has to be extended or what is the point of the appeal. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,559
    castrust said:
    Very helpful summary that answers some key questions.
    Grounds for cautious optimism that the delay should be just 7 days. Bad enough for Lee Bowyer and the team but hopefully not material to TS’s determination to buy CAFC.
    Can the COA increase the injunction time so as to give time to hear the appeal  ?  All that is happening next week is that a judge sitting at the COA is deciding whether an appeal can go ahead. If he/she decides that it can surely they will say the injunction has to be extended or what is the point of the appeal. 
    I think that if he granted leave to appeal they would immediately ask for the 7 day injunction to be extended. Whether that would be included as a contingent in the papers they submit I don’t know.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Crooks these days always seem to the upper hand, whether that is down to leniency or corruption I do not know, but the law no longer seems to favour justice or honesty.
    In my opinion it never did. I found out the hard way that basically if you can get enough people to lie and keep a straight face then innocence doesn’t even come into it. In my case a doctor I’d never met swore that I said certain things in a meeting that he stated he attended. I’ve never met him or ever heard of him prior to him giving evidence. Happened to be a friend of the family I was contesting a case against. So it comes down to who can make up the most convincing story, whether it’s true or not. The law is an ass. I’ve no faith in justice. 

    Let’s see which way the rope swings, all we do know is we are surrounded by crooks, with enough money to hire highly paid QC’s. How some of these guys live with themselves is beyond me. 
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,616
    We now need to hang on .... the emotion of yesterday is long forgotten, we thought we were home free and we arent. 

    Is it likely to go ahead, yes it is.

    Is it a scenario that TS planned for, yes it is.

    Is the champagne going to go off in my fridge in a week, no it's not. 

    Stay cool team, this is still looking very good. 


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  • At any point in these hearings have we gout out explicitly why ESI2 haven’t completed the deal they claim to have? There’s obviously some contingency they have failed to satisfy 

    We assume it’s the EFL tests, but do we know that?
  • Can the appeal be deemed frivolous? 🙂
    If that was the case the judge wouldn’t have given them 7 more days .
    This was a jokey reference to CAFC history of appeals within the football world. You may recall an appeal to have red card/booking rescinded ended up with a higher penalty as it was deemed frivolous. 

    Hence the smiley face.  
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Me after hearing Mr judges decisions on Tuesday and then Wednesday

    Me -




    RIP GT
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    Pearce's decision was that the risk to the club's existence outweighed the risk of damage to Lex Dominus. The CoA would have to fundamentally disagree with that and see that ruling as irrational to grant the appeal.

    How could that possibly be irrational? 
  • Chunes said:
    Pearce's decision was that the risk to the club's existence outweighed the risk of damage to Lex Dominus. The CoA would have to fundamentally disagree with that and see that ruling as irrational to grant the appeal.

    How could that possibly be irrational? 
    It's not.

    But this is Charlton. We'll probably get a judge who hates football or supports Palace or who once had lunch with Farnell.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,805
    Once had lunch with Farnell May well work in our favour 😂 
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,705
    edited September 2020
    castrust said:
    Very helpful summary that answers some key questions.
    Grounds for cautious optimism that the delay should be just 7 days. Bad enough for Lee Bowyer and the team but hopefully not material to TS’s determination to buy CAFC.
    Can the COA increase the injunction time so as to give time to hear the appeal  ?  All that is happening next week is that a judge sitting at the COA is deciding whether an appeal can go ahead. If he/she decides that it can surely they will say the injunction has to be extended or what is the point of the appeal. 


    This is an extract from CAST's summary which, together with Blucher's post, is an excellent summary and reassuring. 

    "If Lex Dominus are granted leave to appeal they are likely to want to then apply for the injunction to be extended while the appeal is heard because otherwise the club could be sold before the appeal is heard.

    This is a totally separate decision which might be decided by the Court of Appeal or they might refer it back to Judge Pearce. The balance of convenience would then come into play again. If a further two weeks’ (for example) delay was reckoned to threaten the club's existence then an extension would be unlikely to be granted."

    Though nothing is certain until TS has donned scarfy, we can be sure that if this request were to be made, with the league season and closing of the transfer window looming closer still, LK could make a strong case that an extension (other than for a very limited time) beyond 9 Sept would indeed run the risk of material damage to CAFC, of which Judge Pearce was mindful in his original denial of the injunction. 

  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    At any point in these hearings have we gout out explicitly why ESI2 haven’t completed the deal they claim to have? There’s obviously some contingency they have failed to satisfy 

    We assume it’s the EFL tests, but do we know that?
     I'd like to see some concrete proof of Elliott's financial investment?
  • Ferryman
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  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Once had lunch with Farnell May well work in our favour 😂 
    Exactly. We know who would have paid.
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