Hird Hits Back

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James Hird's lawyers have launched a formal challenge to the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, claiming that the interim report the government agency prepared for the AFL is invalid, and citing no less than 27 points of conjecture to items in the 400-page document.
Hird has also reiterated in writing that chief executive Andrew Demetriou is a conflicted party who should not sit in judgment of the matter.
In correspondence lodged with the AFL's solicitors on Wednesday afternoon, Hird's legal team outlined three demands that would ruin the league's plans to deal with Essendon before the finals series.
An August 19 deadline was set for an AFL response, with the Hird camp - including Julian Burnside, QC - making no secret of its intention to take on the league in the Victorian Supreme Court if necessary.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/asada-report-james-hirds-threepronged-attack-20130814-2rwxv.html#ixzz2bwIQtPnF

To be expected but Hird did say that he would be fighting the charges vigorously.

 

[LanceRomance]

I wonder if Vlad will just say "Hey sure I'll stand aside, happy Jimbo?"

 

[Kenno27]

He is really angling for that life ban now.

 

[lones37]

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/asada-report-james-hirds-threepronged-attack-20130814-2rwxv.html#ixzz2bwIQtPnF

To be expected but Hird did say that he would be fighting the charges vigorously.

LOL, that's hes only hope. Trying to get injunctions, because he knows the report is bad news.

He is a liar, and a disgrace.

 

[Zerg]

He is really angling for that life ban now.

Vlads not all bad mate...

 

[Hawthorn United]

 

[_Me_]

Don't let the truth get out

Scum

 

[_RT_]

He is really angling for that life ban now.

If you're going to go down may as well go down swinging.

 

[Zerg]

LOL, that's hes only hope. Trying to get injunctions, because he knows the report is bad news.

He is a liar, and a disgrace.

James Hird has mounted an extraordinary challenge to the AFL Commission by demanding a public hearing

Yet he wants his lies aired in public

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[blackshadow]

Is this what you call taking full responsibility?

 

[ABRL]

Don't let the truth get out

Scum

You didn't read it, did you. A questionable decision.

 

[_Me_]

I wonder who is footing the bill for Tirdy's lawyers?

Aod
They got free publicity and research

 

[lones37]

Yet he wants his lies aired in public

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Im all for it, but only if the first challenged is dismissed.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I wonder who is footing the bill for Tirdy's lawyers?

Getting some help from friends and wellwishers

But they're not charging much.

 

[_Me_]

You didn't read it, did you. A questionable decision.

I read it
The issue about a tip off is irrelevant
Where are the records, if you are innocent show the world the records

 

[Chadwiko]

It's a hail mary, albeit expected, move from the Hird camp.

I doubt anyone seriously expects it to succeed in accomplishing anything other than delaying the process.

The AFL is the governing body of the sport, and all clubs, players, and officials are party to it's policies and regulations.

If any judicial process somehow determined that the AFL was not a legitimate authority in this matter, as it appears Hird is challenging if you get to the crux of the issue, then that's basically the end of the entire AFL as we know it.

And no, that's not being melodramatic.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Gloves are off.

I guess this board will explode in the next few weeks. Story just keeps on giving.

 

[PieBeast]

Last breath of a drowning man.

That good place Hirdy was talking about gets better by the minute.

 

[Kwality]

Hirdy could always request/demand his hearing be in public !!

Nothing to lose Jimmy?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It's a hail mary, albeit expected, move from the Hird camp.

I doubt anyone seriously expects it to succeed in accomplishing anything other than delaying the process.

The AFL is the governing body of the sport, and all clubs, players, and officials are party to it's policies and regulations.

If any judicial process somehow determined that the AFL was not a legitimate authority in this matter, as it appears Hird is challenging if you get to the crux of the issue, then that's basically the end of the entire AFL as we know it.

And no, that's not being melodramatic.

Well I think it is being melodramatic.

The AFL have chosen to charge Hird based on the contents of this report.

If he feels its inaccurate, this is the right course to take.

 

[snitzel]

Gloves are off.

I guess this board will explode in the next few weeks. Story just keeps on giving.

nope, just opposition supporters calling Hird delusional no matter what action he takes.

 

[Sanders]

Getting some help from friends and wellwishers

But they're not charging much.

Just say you don't know then

 

[jerry springer]

amazing story.

Hird vs Vlad, back to a win-win situation

 

[Forever North]

More spin, more smokescreen, more deflection, more lack of responsibility, more blame everyone/everything else, more me me me me me.......his only way out of this self inflicted farcical mess is through the use of $15k a day QC's. This says it all.

 

[Chadwiko]

If he feels its inaccurate, this is the right course to take.

But it's not. The AFL have charged him, AND given him a time and date for him to fight the charges.

Instead of fighting the charges on their merits as they have been presented, he has launched legal action to avoid facing the charges put before him.

In short, it seems from the outside that James Hird is receiving terrible legal advice.