The reason why supreme court cases cost a bomb is because the lawyer will brief a barrister or even senior counsel. Could cost you $5-10,000 per day just for an appearance. Add to that the lawyers hourly rate, barristers written opinion and your bill is already running out of control. Then you need to contemplate the risk of losing and having to pay the other side's costs....
That's my point exactly, so why would anyone even bother..
You would think that it'd be cost prohibitive to anyone other than a squillionaire with money to burn, and even then it's been my experience that people with large amounts of money have fairly tight purse strings.
My guess is that it's all smoke and mirrors. Most of the time the threat of legal action is just that, a threat and nothing more.
The even crazier thing that just sprung to mind, even if they win, it only guarantees them a new election, not a spot (or spots) on the board, they would still have to get voted in, and after putting the fans and members through another mud raking exercise, that could potentially cost us Forans signature, they aren't going to be very interested in giving them a go and voting for them.
I know I wouldn't, all they will accomplish is doing further damage to the club that a) is easily avoided and b) that we really don't need.
