Chris Cairns - Guilty or innocent?

[Stylo]

Looks like hasn't got too many friends out there, all coming out of the woodwork now ...

Perjury, maximum term 7 years.

[Shaun Harris]

Guilty as fuk, never liked the stuck up arrogant poofter either. So ha Fukin ha I say

[caspernz]

Seems guilty as sin to me

Let's see what the court decides.

Only winners in this must be the lawyers

[TheDemonLord]

Guilty!!


































Of playing the most godawful boring sport in history.

[Shaun Harris]

Guilty!!


































Of playing the most godawful boring sport in history.

One day is fine for an hour or 2, but F those day after day B Shit games

[husaberg]

Seems guilty as sin to me

Let's see what the court decides.

Only winners in this must be the lawyers

He got a large wad of cash in a defamation suit that preceded this when someone named him previously as a Match fixer. 2012

then again gee you are right look at the costs. 3 million Dollars legal fees.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket...el-case-denied

One time top cricketer Chris Cairns has won the final round of his British libel case and is set to collect nearly $180,000 in damages from Indian businessman Lalit Modi.

In what was labelled the first ever Twitter defamation case, Cairns, 42, took Modi to the British High Court, winning his case in March.

Modi appealed the verdict but overnight the Court of Appeal in London upheld the libel verdict.

Modi, who when he was chairman of the Indian Premier League, tweeted that Cairns had been involved in match-fixing.

Cairns had told the trial that the allegations posted in January 2010 - read by up to 95 people in the UK and then repeated on a cricketing website for a number of hours - reduced his career to "dust".

In the High Court trial, Justice Bead said that Modi had "singularly failed to provide any reliable evidence that Mr Cairns was involved in match fixing or spot fixing, or even that there were strong grounds for suspicion that he was".

Nearly three years ago Lalit Modi made baseless and outrageous allegations against me as a professional sportsman. He declined to withdraw them. I was fully vindicated at trial in March this year. Mr Modi's appeal, just like his case, was doomed from the start."

Cairns' lawyers are also entitled to collect nearly $3 million in costs from Modi who has also been refused leave to further appeal.

[caspernz]

He got a large wad of cash in a defamation suit that preceded this when someone named him previously as a Match fixer.

Not suggesting there's doubt he's guilty of match fixing, this trial is about perjury. Revisiting the match fixing topic is part of the perjury trial.

[husaberg]

Not suggesting there's doubt he's guilty of match fixing, this trial is about perjury. Revisiting the match fixing topic is part of the perjury trial.

I didn't think you were I actually thought he got heaps more in damages than he did in the last case. That turned out to be incorrect 180,000 vs 3 million in costs, You are right the lawyers won regardless.

[Robbo]

Yep, it's not looking good for him, is it.

I'd say he's fucked and could be looking

at a stint of porridge.

[Trade_nancy]

I believe prior to this he got into some prickly stuff over "misuse" of trust funds while he was supposed to be an advocate for train crossing safety..following the tragic death of his sister on one. He spent a tidy sum of the donated funds jetting 1st class around the world...and on other wastage. Got into the goo over it and most people have forgotten about it...

[Shaun Harris]

I believe prior to this he got into some prickly stuff over "misuse" of trust funds while he was supposed to be an advocate for train crossing safety..following the tragic death of his sister on one. He spent a tidy sum of the donated funds jetting 1st class around the world...and on other wastage. Got into the goo over it and most people have forgotten about it...

I never read about that

[jasonu]

Lance must be turning in his grave.

[Akzle]

c) no fucks given.

Meanwhile back to the really important news in whangarei

[PrincessBandit]

I'm surprised he isn't resorting to "I never ever cheated in ICC games" (as opposed to unsanctioned ones...) It's all in the interpretation.

[husaberg]

Lance must be turning in his grave.

He might if he had one.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2k...from-past_news

Its a shame to tarnish the name though, I worshiped Lance growing up.
I still remember that cameo he did as himself for some comedy likely written by Macphail and Gadsby and Rodger Halls
What was that series called? it was set in some rural town like letter to blanchy but it wasn't