Quote Originally Posted by gabbsthenewt View Post
There is one context in which your hands may be tied mind - should the insurer have as part of their conditions in paying out on a claim, that you pursue every possible avenue with which to recover the loss, however factored into this would usually be reasonable avenues. Pursuing fundamentally flawed legal argument wouldn't be one of them. When your argument is secondary (we didn't register him to play in any one competition) rather than primary to the matter at hand (he'd signed the contract and agreement completed upon), it is not reasonable and has has been ruled to be so twice now, at great extra cost.
That's interesting. I'm not a management accountant but I've worked with a few, mainly over intellectual property (initially in Pharma Development and now in Game Development), so the insurance conditions context is one that hasn't needed to be factored in during any disputes I've been involved with so I hadn't thought of that aspect.

Pursuing fundamentally flawed legal argument is an interesting one. In cases of IP for example, lawyers tend to try and come up with clever arguments based on technicalities. The risk was/is always to know who you're dealing with when it comes to the final judgement and 'will it p*ss them off?' I'm a person who has never wanted to go to court and that finding a figure to agree upon is better than losing and should be better for all parties. Like tribunals and compromise agreements for example. You're either going to lose some (but not as much if the court rules against you) or win some (but not as much if the court rules for you). Racking up legal costs can be a real disaster when it comes to making sound decisions and knowing when to back down.

There is one third point I've just thought of while writing this. Pride and/or stubbornness i.e. not wanting to lose. So you could be getting sound legal argument but choosing to ignore it because you just feel it's unfair (it may be but not legally). This goes back to the sh*t happens mindset and can that be accepted. All hypothetical but a second ruling against and record costs/arbitration fees doesn't bode well. I hope it's not stubbornness. As a mere fan in all this, it's my biggest worry and what the long-term repercussions will be for the club. Sure it's not my money. Sure it's not legally my club. Emotionally, it is though.