Palantir is set to sue Sadiq Khan after the London Mayor blocked a £50m contract with the Metropolitan Police as he claimed the tech giant does not reflect the City's values.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t be able to be taken to court, more that the argument “making a political decision” literally applies to any action a politician takes. Even if that’s not likely to succeed, if that’s the bar to clear, any sufficiently large company could just repeatedly sue an official with adversarial views, to hobble any decisions they make couldn’t they? This is purely ignorance of how the UK legal system works on my part, so I apologize if this is like super basic info.
That’s a good clarification on the UK office of Palantir, though, I fully didn’t realize that would be considered a local entity, given where they’re headquartered, but it makes way more sense in that case.
I completely agree. I doubt Palantir’s objective is even to win the case. I imagine the strategy is to cause such a long and expensive process in the hope that the Mayor’s office will give in.
I’m no legal expert myself but as way of explaination we have different courts for different matters. As this isn’t a criminal case but a civil one of some importance, it would likely go to the ‘crown court’ and then to the appeals court (should one side decide to appeal) for a final decision, but I believe the appeals process can be very long and drawn out, which is I expect what Palantir want. Because they are cunts.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t be able to be taken to court, more that the argument “making a political decision” literally applies to any action a politician takes. Even if that’s not likely to succeed, if that’s the bar to clear, any sufficiently large company could just repeatedly sue an official with adversarial views, to hobble any decisions they make couldn’t they? This is purely ignorance of how the UK legal system works on my part, so I apologize if this is like super basic info.
That’s a good clarification on the UK office of Palantir, though, I fully didn’t realize that would be considered a local entity, given where they’re headquartered, but it makes way more sense in that case.
I completely agree. I doubt Palantir’s objective is even to win the case. I imagine the strategy is to cause such a long and expensive process in the hope that the Mayor’s office will give in.
I’m no legal expert myself but as way of explaination we have different courts for different matters. As this isn’t a criminal case but a civil one of some importance, it would likely go to the ‘crown court’ and then to the appeals court (should one side decide to appeal) for a final decision, but I believe the appeals process can be very long and drawn out, which is I expect what Palantir want. Because they are cunts.