FIL wrote:
It might be easy standing up in front of your colleagues in the Council chamber, but standing in front of a judge in the Law Courts is a totally different situation altogether.
Believe me I have been there on lots of occasions over the past 28 years (for the prosecution, I might add
), but even though you know you have done nothing wrong, it is still a traumatic experience.
Heaven help anyone who
has done something wrong......
Luckily I've never had that experience and that's not something I'd wish to change, but I can certainly imagine it's pretty intense.
We all know deep down that some things that have occurred in this process are "unusual" shall we say..... However the labour council has been around a long long time, and I'm sure they've acted in such a way to cover their tracks or negotiate their way through loopholes etc etc.
As I say, it'd be very naive to just now assume that a QC is going to unravel an entire local government with 40 odd tears worth of experience in these matters.
I'm not saying it won't be done, I'm just fairly confident it won't be plain sailing.
The council have maneuvered their way through this entire saga in such a way nobody could've ever anticipated - I'm sure when NM got approved a few years ago nobody expected what has followed.
I certainly hope justice prevails and I'm confident it will, whether that's for the benefit of the club and community or not....
But leopards don't change their spots and I'd be very surprised if this legal battle will be quick and easy
