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Sounds like online turnstile vaulting.
Our hearing is being held this week ...right? Might we expect an initial points decision this week?
No. There are lawyers involved so there needs to be a gap of a few weeks so that it looks like they've done something for their money.
Verdict has to be before 12th April. But that's with a last date for a hearing being on 5th April. As our hearing is this week, nearly a month ahead of the worst case timeline, we should hear the result at the end of next week?
I think the club will hear. But I don't know if a lag before it is made public
Unless the decision is a fine and a suspended points deduction, in which case we'll agree and move on with our lives as quickly as possible.
My guess is that it'll be made official pretty quickly after the club finds out. It's the sort of thing you can't keep quiet for long.
It's not wholly straightforward, and 4 KCs are unlikely to decide it on the hop so expect them to take what time they have.
Don't be an idiot. They decided (or were told) a long time ago. We are just being worked in an admin process.
Where does it say who the panel is?
If they are independent KCs it definitely won't be a rubber stamp.
Sounds like a man who's had experience with the law?
Lollers
I am not totally up on this, but the first Everton one was heard by a "commission" comprised of accountants. The appeal was a tribunal of KCs and a former court of appeal judge. So if ours goes the same way prepare for the potential for quite a variable decision between first instance and any appeal. This is about rule interpretation which you need lawyers for, accountants quite likely will get it wrong and if they have people of the level of ex court of appeal judges on it they aren't going to just do what the Premier league wants, they will be fiercely independent and fair. It's a bit like adjudication in the construction industry - you get chartered surveyors giving rough and ready first instance decisions but they may not be skilled at proper interpretation of rules.
