Everyone's entitled to their opinion but I cannot believe some people on here saying that we "look cheap" for taking Pulis to court over this.

He did a magnificent job for us and he is a very good manager but for me, that was all undone the moment he threw his toys out and left us in turmoil 2 days before the season started.

Here's my understanding of what happened;

He didn't get the signings he wanted so he got on the blower to his contacts and pimped himself out for another job. He got job offers pretty quickly and, with the the clock ticking, lied to Parish to get his bonus paid early and left as soon as he could.

He obviously didn't give a rat's arse about Palace or us fans. He's got history for this kind of behaviour with other clubs as well. The Judge even said his conduct had "been shown to be disgraceful" when ruling against him. Horrible, horrible man who deserves everything he gets.

Unfortunately winning a court case and getting the debtor to pay are two entirely different things. I have learnt this from my own experiences and have had to employ the sherriffs office to force the outcome to receive payment. It can take years and thats not counting if their is any reasonable course of appeal from the MR Pulis.
I rest my case.

COYP

He must be out of time if he hasn't already lodged an appeal and there have been no reports that he has. So probably would need to apply for leave to appeal out of time which would require him to show grounds to justify the late appeal.

As for enforcement that mainly proves difficult when a judgment debtor has no money. A bankruptcy petition would probably create some interest!

I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

Indeed. I am (was) a chippie by trade & a guy bumped me for 900 odd quid. I was actually just going to shrug my shoulders & not worry about it, but my work colleague said 'Its alright for you, your a single bloke whereas i'm a married man with two kids'so we took him to the small claims court where we won our case.
The big issue was getting this scumbag to pay up. He only did when we took out a garnishee order on him.

Pro USA & Israel

There have been alleged stories of Pulis involving tranfer dealings and payoffs in the past.

However in this court case SP well and truly reeled TP in over the bonus payment in terms of reasons given for the early payment by TP-Needed money to purchase land for his children - however no land dealings were found to be done by TP
Heated Players Meeting (HPM) date-date given by TP he stated it was held on 12 August and had O'keefe, Bannan and Price in court to back TP's lawyer up.

Also in court TP's lawyer had argued that TP had agreed to stay at Palace at least until 31/08/14-(An undertaking SP had asked TP prior to agreeing to paying him the bonus early) but apparently comments made at the HPM had changed his mind that's why he left the club.

But TP had been paid the bonus early by SP on 12/08 and left the following evening 13/08.

The Panel said there is not one single item of objective contemporaneous or forensic evidence that positively puts Mr Parish at the training ground on the morning of 12 August and in fact the HPM had taken place on the 8th August.
The original ruling by Sir Michael Burton had found TP standard of conduct 'to be disgraceful'

Panel outcome-The real reason for wanting the bonus paid early was as TP had secured a more lucrative contract elsewhere.
Thats why TP has been facing a bill of £3.76m plus interest and costs which presumably has been rising ever since it was awarded!!

Agree 100% it just boils down to greed in my opinion he didn't fulfil the terms of his contract regarding the bonus it's a open & shut as well as being greedy you could say idiotic as well for not doing things the correct way. All this was easily preventable don't blame SP for pursuing it whatever disagreement happened beforehand all he had to do was sit tight for a couple of weeks then take the money & run.