Great thread.
VofR the FL have a system that is NON-legal binding and they decide whether a company is 'fit' not through any legal requirement but that the said company 'fit' their criteria. It's like the police have their own system for regulating their staff's actions.
I have said before and now I believe it is so important that EVERY club have a trust - each trust pay £1000 and that money goes to employ 2 full time lawyers and 2 student part timers. Their job is to step in when it is required.
Why is this so?
1. How can a company/team go into administration but then hire the administrator and then take over the company/team again. IF this is NOT law then it should be the 'Trusts' legal requirement.
2. The FA and FL have their 'bodies' to protect their members but we supporters have no such body. In this country alone we could get 1 million members who elect a president and council to oversee supporters' rights. As mentioned above we can employ professional lawyers to assist with making OUR laws and regulations.
(Why should we fans be controlled by a body that has no interest in our rights? If there were no fans there would be no Sky TV or BBC interest.
I suggest WE CCFC form a 'Trust' that has funds to work towards employing a lawyer
As my name on this site suggests I am a lawyer and like most in my profession would be only too pleased to accept a fee but what I have tried to highlight on this (and other) threads is that if anyone, in any context, goes to law they should do so in a targetted fashion and only if they have a case they are likely to win. Only SHITSU / Odious / Appleton and the other bidders know what went on and what was offered. From the outside it looks likely that using the strict criteria that Appleton was legally required to follow Odious
probably was the "best" offer so it is unlikely that there would be any sustainable cause of action in regard to that.
The FL as I understand it have not actually sanctioned / authorised / licenced the takeover yet but when (if?) they do that is when there may be a cause of action by way of Judicial Review
The point I am making is that it is no use talking about using lawyers "because the fans are ignored" or because some of us have bricks in the Ricoh Wall or because of the Memorial Garden. None of that matters a jot
The likelihood is that everything that SHITSU and Mr Appleton have done so far is perfectly legal. The argument (legal or otherwise) needs to be with the FL as to whether or not they are properly applying their own rules and regulations
Trust me, the SHITSU / Odious lawyers will have squared off every little legal nuance and none of us are suddenly going to find something they have missed. So we should stop wasting time trying and concentrate on FL.....