It's the Allam's that will settle any liability, whether they do it as Hull City, or just as the Allam's, is a mere technicality.
If Bullard wins can Hull City sue Brown, Duffen and Bartlett for Football contract negligence? They would have 25000 witnesses wouldn't they?
According to Radio Blunderside the appeal is to be made to the Allams. To be made before the end of the week. So this will be just the first stage, probably when Bullards legal team will find out the extent of evidence against him.
It comes as no suprise he's appealing, but i feel that his appeal will be unsuccessful. With the amount of legal advice the club took before sacking him they must have known that they would have had a strong case in sacking him and any appeal by Bullard would be unsuccessful.
Just because Bullard has the backing of the PFA means nothing. It is the PFA´s job to represent their members they do so in even the most hopeless of cases. Unions even arrange and pay for represntation for criminal matters occurring in the work place and where their member pleads guilty. Employment Law is complex and a barrister is not going to turn down a good fee to represent Bullard. I have no doubt he has already provided advice that could indicate that they would win, but equally Hull City will have received advice from an equally capable QC stating that they could win before a tribunal. One possible outcome is that the Tribunal could state that it was harsh to sack him but that Bullard was partly responsible for the situation himself. For arguement they could state 50% responsibility therefore if the amount at stake is 2.5 million then he would receive half which could be judged a good result for Hull City because it would save us 3.75 million. When the Leeds footballers were before the Court Bowyer was found not guilty of all charges. Normally in those circumstances the Judge would order his costs to be paid from Central Funds. He did not do so despite the arguements of a highly paid QC because Bowyer lied throughout to the police and had he told the truth he would not have been prosecuted. The same principal could be applied to Bullard.
I am concerned that a FL tribunal may not decide the case strictly on employment law but the Allams are working on normal employment law. Is there anyone at FL HQ with sufficient expertise to advise the tribunal correctly?
