Rangers have won their court battle against a Scottish Football Association transfer embargo after a judge ruled the disciplinary panel members acted outside of their powers.
Lord Glennie proposed that the case go back to the SFA appeal tribunal that upheld the initial decision by a judicial panel to impose a 12-month ban on registering players aged 18 and over.
Following a three-hour hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, the judge accepted the club's petition for a judicial review as he ruled that the SFA could only administer the specific punishments stated in the rule relating to the disrepute charge.
Rangers were already under a Scottish Premier League transfer embargo which will stand while they are in administration, but the publication of a Company Voluntary Arrangement proposal on Tuesday means that could end as early as July 12.
However, Rangers could face even stronger punishment from any reconvened SFA appeal panel as the only stated punishments above the maximum £100,000 fine already administered are suspension or expulsion from participation in the game, ejection from the Scottish Cup or termination of membership.
The disrepute charge was handed down mainly over the club's failure to pay more than £13million in taxes last season and SFA legal representative Aidan O'Neill QC had argued that the punishment had to be "effective, dissuasive and proportionate".
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FIFA want to put their own house in order before telling others what to do. FIFA is rotten to the core it's full of corruption.
hey linda back to the dishes hen leave mens stuff alone
george septic never beaten always cheated grow up ya moron
fifa what a nerve the most corrupt body in sport EVER
yeah kick us out of the sc ottish cup septic still wont win it
The ship is still sinking.........go down with the ship......
judge today highlighted what the sfa should have done to rancers! now fifa want action now. another fine mess sally!
Told my 12 year old son that SFA lost there case against Rangers and would have to pay there costs as well he replied "What thats like the police giving the Gangsters the money to get out of jail*
FINALLY FIFA MAKE SOME NOISE ON THE MATTER... RANGERS have just shot themselves in the foot while trying to cut off their nose to spite their face... lol multitasking at its best !!!
fifa must step in now, kick the sfa's but into taking action, as has previously happened in other countries, and administer the real punishment that rangers are due. i think this appeal is about to backfire on rangers and a stiffer punishment given out.
firstly the sfa panel aready STATED PUBLICLY expulsion was too severe, secondly IF SFA are all powerful and ABOVE the law why did they go to all the expense of defending the action ,now theyve got to pay gers costs as well, as usual they want their cake and eat it , one court case down one to go against hmrc let that one go our way and all you vultures really WILL be choking ,
So they played their masonic judge card...which doesn't seem to have done much...and later it will backfire. Can they even afford transfers? How would the creditors -(inc. hmrc)- feel about that one?
now maybe rangers will get justice........ and they will be stripped of all the trophies they have tainted with there rule breaking ebt payments
A Civil Court has no Jurisdiction over the SFA re FIFA's Rules, now the SFA will have to pass other sanctions or FIFA can pass sanctions on the SFA
Should the sfa now convene another "independant" panel to inflict another type of punishment it will be seen to be simply VINDICTIVE, which when all is said and done is what this is ALL about. Quite simply Liewell's sfa want to kill Rangers F.C. off and have a one horse race for future championship titles. This season has been tainted so if Rangers are buried all future titles would be hollow victories with no competition from the diddy teams left in the league. WATP
How much did that cost the SFA and will they have to pay Rangers costs for the privilege of making them look a laughing stock thats what you get for your leniency
So the judge says the S.F.A. acted illegally. Thats great news as the judge also said that it was legal to suspend or expel them. Personally i would love fifa to get involved then there would be no screaming and shouting about bias.
#6 Abide by the LAWS Pay Yer FeckinTax THEN
ok , now the sfa can kick them out , after all they were giving them a soft punishment rather than kick them out but now its the only option HHHHHHAAAAA HHHHAAAAA
All the words, and that's all they have been (no substance) typed on here by tims wanting Rangers to cease as an organisation have proved to be utter rubbish. Lysdexic attacking Robert and not accepting the obvious that the Hampden 3 and the appeal panel were acting above and beyond what they could dish out. Now they have been firmly slapped by the real powers in our country. Fifa and Uefa take note ... you are sporting organisations who HAVE to abide by the LAWS in the countries in which you operate.
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