Lord Nimmo Smith defends impartiality of panel

[Quiet Jim 897]

True taig style, say it often enough, must be true.

Well Mr Nimmo fucking Smith, you are no more than a taig loving bastard and Rangers hater, who is an integral part of taig agenda. Like you don't know it, you morally corrupt henious cunt. Away and lead a commission into child abuse at your corrupt club and strip them of titles. Then investigate all those paedophile priests who are being protected by your taig minded brethren and then investigate those same priests who were involved in gun running for the spineless i ran away.

Law lord my fucking erse. You know the truth, you know the agenda, you know the law. You are a disgrace to the profession.

Would love to get something on that piece of scum.

Your wish is fulfilled;

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/tangled-web-that-distracts-attention-from-real-black-magic-circle-1.758712

Incompetent, gullible and mental health issues.

Is that enough?

[slimjim1690 4,534]

So Lord Nimmo .......

* you accept the SPL shilling (or whatever other consideration, favour, benefit and the like that has been or is to be imparted to you).....

* to chair / sit in judgement on an SPL commission on charges relating to a football club who was voted out of the SPL......but...

* who hold treasures valuable to the powers that influence the SPL and who wish to see those treasures stripped from Rangers........but..

* the SPL needs to operate under the skirts of legalise to try to give legitimacy to their ambitions.....and....

* you assert that notwithstanding all of this you and your commission members are nevertheless impartial, that is to say unprejudiced and fair.........and......

* you expect Rangers, and its fans and the marjority of rational and fair-minded people in Scotland and in football in general to believe your assertions of impartiality.......when.......

* you use analogies of match fixing aid your defence of impartiality.....and.....

* threaten to come to your judgement based evidence put to you so if Rangers does not put any evidence then you will judge on the basis of what has been presented by the SPL and those minded towards the SPLs motives and ............

* that you assert that such judgements will be done by exercising independence from the SPL.

Seems quite clear to me that what has been set up by the SPL and what you are doing on this commisssion is about as far from being impartial and independent as it can get. If that were not so, then the need to leap to your own defence of impartiality would not be needed (or is that too many 'nots' for you?). Look......you are seen as the willing or unwilling (I don't know which) champion of an anti-Rangers vendetta. It is as simple as that. In making your decision against Rangers you will go down in history as one of the leading lights who carried out a crusading vendetta against Rangers on behalf of your SPL masters. Your commission, its alleged impartiality and alleged unfettered right to determine independently from the SPL is judged by many to be nothing more than a sham. Charles is right - its a kangaroo court.

Brilliant post mate.

Have a rep.

[shankillblue1 349]

Looks like Lord Nimmo Smith should be getting investigated.

You would think this henious cunt would want to stay off the radar with his past misdemeanours. These inbred taig cunts just don't do morality. They don't do right or wrong, they just do hatred!

[ray 105]

True taig style, say it often enough, must be true.

Well Mr Nimmo fucking Smith, you are no more than a taig loving bastard and Rangers hater, who is an integral part of taig agenda. Like you don't know it, you morally corrupt henious cunt. Away and lead a commission into child abuse at your corrupt club and strip them of titles. Then investigate all those paedophile priests who are being protected by your taig minded brethren and then investigate those same priests who were involved in gun running for the spineless i ran away.

Law lord my fucking erse. You know the truth, you know the agenda, you know the law. You are a disgrace to the profession.

Would love to get something on that piece of scum.

I nearly laughed when I read the above, nearly but not quite.

(Lord) William Austin Nimmo Smith.

[shankillblue1 349]

If I didn't know better, this inbred is being blackmailed into doing this. Some cunt has got compromisin pictures,so the outcome is inevitable, even if there is overwhelmingly no evidence against us.

[Quiet Jim 897]

Wonder how much ££££££it's worth to this cunt .The whole media defends this prick as of he is God but with Glennie it was oh so different .Wonder why

Lord Glennie presiding over;

Charles Green V The SPL.

Witnesses; Hugh Adam(86), Neil Doncaster & Lord Nimmo.

Hope 'Lord' Nimmo doesn't take another breakdown, if this case goes to court.

[Quiet Jim 897]

If I didn't know better, this inbred is being blackmailed into doing this. Some cunt has got compromisin pictures,so the outcome is inevitable, even if there is overwhelmingly no evidence against us.

[OlegKuznetsov 10,816]

Lord Nimmo Smith defends impartiality of panel looking into Rangers alleged use of EBTs

Lord Nimmo Smith, the Scottish High Court judge in charge of the independent investigation set up by the SPL to look into the charge that Rangers may have failed to disclose Employee Benefit Trust payments to players from 2001-11 – in breach of the rules – has issued a strongly worded defence of the impartiality of his panel, which also includes two QCs, Nicholas Stewart and Charles Flint.

The statement says: “In most cases, it would not be necessary to discuss this topic, but in the circumstances of the present case we think it appropriate to do so.

“It is fundamental to the constitution of a body with investigatory and disciplinary powers, such as the present Commission, that it must act independently of the person or body appointing it.

“We must of course operate within the terms of our remit, and apply any rules which are applicable, but in reaching our final determination of the Issues, and in making any incidental decisions, we shall exercise our own judgement, on the basis of the evidence which is adduced, in accordance with the principles of natural justice, and unfettered by the influence of the Board or of anyone else.

“None of us would have accepted his appointment on any other basis. We have the use of SPL premises and are assisted by SPL staff, but this is because we have given instructions to that effect; the members of staff, in particular, act under our instructions.”

In another section of his statement, Nimmo Smith buttressed his argument by use of legal precedent:

“It is well understood that the rules of natural justice require that a judge, or a person performing a quasi-judicial function, such as the Chairman of this Commission, must be free not only from actual bias but also from apparent bias in his determination of the Issues before him. The test for establishing apparent bias is authoritatively laid down in Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67, [2002] 2 AC 357, in which Lord Hope of Craighead said at paragraph 143:

"The question is whether the fair-minded and informed observer, having considered the facts, would conclude that there was a real possibility that the tribunal was biased."

Charles Green, the chief executive of the Rangers newco which took control at Ibrox in June after HMRC refused to agree to a deal that would have brought the oldco out of administration, has persistently criticised the SPL for their approach to the investigation and said this week: "In terms of this commission, if the SPL agenda prevails then Rangers will be found guilty and being found guilty we will lose five titles.

"What I said before is that this commission is not independent because the SPL have set it up. Saying that they are not independent is not saying that they are not impartial.”

Nimmo Smith has responded by detailing the remit of his tribunal and the legal case for stripping Rangers of titles – should the sanction be deemed appropriate – despite Green’s assertion that the SPL has no power over the successor company.

Nimmo Smith states: “To take the hypothetical example of a Club which has been engaged in match-fixing in the last game of the season, but is then relegated and consequently ceases to be a member of the SPL, there is every reason why it should still be liable to disciplinary action at the instance of the SPL – whether or not the breach comes to light before or after that Club has relinquished its SPL membership.

“We can think of many similar hypothetical examples”.

This stinks to high heavens. Independent? Yeah, right!

[Quiet Jim 897]

This stinks to high heavens. Independent? Yeah, right!

A source told me that 'Lord' Nimmo is on the verge of implosion.

Next headline;

Nimmo the dimmo exposed as incompetent.

QJ

[chris86rfc 1]

Just read his article in the scotsman, he also says that oldco and newco rangers are one entity and its the club who has only changed owner/operator that coukd recieve punishment as its the same club who was a member of the spl. Is that not we have been saying all along!

[boss 1,941]

Dimmo Nimmo of the Commission has decided on behalf of the Commission that the Commission is independent, that the Commission is not compromised, and that the Commission can sit in judgement on the matter placed before the Commission. The question is: did he decide that before or after he last visited his psychotherapist?