Rangers lose in latest court battle with Sports Direct

[pete 2,499]

I haven't seen this on here. Seems the Rangers Lawyer had a field day.

[pete 2,499]

Borrowed from FF as is the tweets.

Ok so basically SD have argued that Rangers have breached prior agreement that their right to match was in some way exclusive, and that by Rangers entering in to an agreement with another provider has breached said agreement.

Rangers Counsel have argued that these rights were "Non Exclusive" and the wording of the Agreement supports that these were "Non Exclusive" therefore Rangers were within their rights to go elsewhere. Our Counsel Mr Hofmeyr also argued SD interpretation would make no commercial sense. We also presented the Court with emails exchanges with SD which support they were in no hurry to negotiate a new deal despite the Judge in the last case to "get on with it" and argument that if there is no steps to match, then Sports Direct lose their rights to match. Our QC also quoted a Loydd's TSB case with regards to how a contract should be formed and it's end goal mechanism, and that SD's argument of the agreement is off balance.

The Judge appears to positively acknowledge Mr Hofmeyr points (but I will remind you that this may not affect his overall judgement but does give an indication of his mindset). SD'S QC did not appear to get his points across very well as the Judge's responses show.

Noting is certain. Judge said on closing "I know that you are both keen for a Judgement, I shall get round to it when I can, is there any particular date that is should be made aware of that is important to the run of things. Judge closed by requesting a copy of the minuscript".


** Udpated

SD asked for an injunction on Elite distributing Rangers Kit until the case was heard, their application failed.

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Would have thought Ashley had much bigger things to worry about just now. 

Another Newcastle relegation being biggest.

[compo 7,043]

The fat man is seldom wrong in these matters and he can afford to go the whole way , horrid man .

[buster. 5,195]

We should know by now wrt Mr.MASH/SDI, that what matters is the final result, not selected paragraphs.

 

 

 

 

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Ashley also tried to get Hummel to send him the replica tops for his shops, he was blanked by Hummel, haha HummelLoyal.

[Bill 13,717]

We lose ..... yet again.

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7 minutes ago, Bill said:

We lose ..... yet again.

Must be costing the club a fortune in legal fees .

[ian1964 10,724]

Rangers lose in fresh court battle with Sports Direct

BOSSES at Rangers Football Club have lost the latest round of a High Court fight over a merchandise deal with Sports Direct and Newcastle United boss Mike Ashley.

 

A judge has ruled Rangers breached the terms of an agreement made with a company in the Sports Direct group.

Mr Justice Teare concluded the Ibrox club made a new agreement with another firm without giving Sports Direct a chance to match that firm's offer.

The judge had analysed the row at a High Court hearing in London earlier this month.

The indicated arguments about damages could be aired at another hearing.

Mr Justice Teare said Rangers had lost and would therefore pick up all lawyers' bills run up during the latest round of litigation.

Lawyers told him Sports Direct had spent about £280, 000 and Rangers about £147,000.

The judge said legal bills would be assessed in detail before Rangers paid the full amount.

He said it might be argued Sports Direct's bills were "high or possibly unreasonably high".

Rangers made a deal relating to replica kit sales in June 2017, the judge said.

The club then entered into a new agreement with a firm called the Elite Group in September 2018, he found.

Sports Direct bosses said Rangers were in breach of the agreement made with them, which was disputed by the club.

https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/17004166.rangers-lose-in-fresh-court-battle-with-sports-direct/

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Our legal eagles must be useless time to pump them .