SEETHING

If diddy clubs fold and die like the start of Saving Private Ryan, the league will have to be reconstructed.

H.P. Lovecraft wrote of "the fear of the unknown". Never have those words had more salience than when watching a succession of P&B dunderheads scream "WHAT UR YE GOIN TAE COURT WITH" as if they would have the slightest comprehension of the intricacies of the legal minefield that HMFC are setting out as we speak. Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

BAH GAWD THAT’S THE COURT OF SESSION’S MUSIC

No, because that's a daft thing to say. I trust this clarifies the situation to your satisfaction.

Just to be clear, under no circumstances should this situation be resolved by forcing Hearts to play more games in an attempt to stay in the top division on merit.

Cba reading from where I found this on page 404, but you would seek an interim interdict, preventing the playing of any SPFL fixtures, when lodging your petition for judicial review. It's not inevitable it'd be granted, but to dismiss it as "nonsense" is wrong.

I feel u bro

Ok, I'm definitely going back to puerile gifs after this. 1) I don't know about the Belgian and French league governing structure. I had read that clubs had voted in Belgium, in the same way that they did in Scotland. In any event, a Judicial Review would examine the process behind the making of the vote, which I expect would take us back to Nelmsgate etc. 2) I never said a contract had been breached. As above, Judicial Review is available in Scotland to appeal the decision-making process of private members' clubs. It's why you could take your local golf club to court to Judicially Review a decision made by its committee - e.g. https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=79b386a6-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7 3) "legal suicide" = lol. It's really not, mate. At worst, a judge says "So what?" to which the answer is "I appreciate it isn't binding, but you may find the reasoning behind the decision (insofar as it applies) to be useful." Section 2 of the Competition Act 1998 may well assist HMFC. Your cannabis analogy is not a good one, sorry. 4) No wonder - most Hearts fans (myself included) aren't competition lawyers. This shit is complex. You would be reviewing a decision which, arguably, was made unfairly. Trolling aside, I accept that Hearts have already, officially, been relegated. That's the decision you'd be JRing.

"If you can make one heap of all your hubris And risk it on one turn of St Mirren tossers And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss ... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son." Agreed. That's why I said it wouldn't be binding. Thanks Ric. Fair enough - like I said, I'm not a competition lawyer. I also never bothered to see whether the Belgian case went higher than the equivalent of their local courts, so that's why I was focusing on the offer of sharing arguments, which may or may not be of any use in Scotland.

St Johnstone and Ross County fans whinging about having to play "meaningless games" takes the biscuit tbqh.

1) If it's all incorrect, then you're getting into "This statement is false" levels of paradox by implying that I am simultaneously a competition lawyer, and not a lawyer. 2) It's not incorrect at all. 3) I am a lawyer; disappointed that you haven't managed to pick that up from my excellent and learned posts.

I mean, for the right price I could be. @JamTarts

IIRC, the "offer" from the Belgian lad was to share the arguments used, which you'd expect to be fairly similar. I'm not a competition lawyer, but I expect there's some EU law involved. In any event, precedents from comparative jurisdictions are cited in court all the time. They aren't binding, but can be persuasive.

Nice diddy clubs in a precarious financial position you've got there. It'd be a shame if something...happened to them.

^^^ this guy knows the score

Beautiful, isn’t it.

Not sure that one's going to catch on tbqhwy m8.

Absolutely beautiful to see the Hibs and St Mirren fans completely raging already.

Natural Order

How cute.

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