JayBee
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Question.The terms of a heads of agreement are enforceable at law, whether they are made public or not, on the parties that sign it. In this case that's JAC and the Tuggers. I don't know what the terms were in the HOA but whatever they were are enforceable. Often HOA's have terms like "best endeavours", which means it's not necessary to achieve them just show that you tried to. Something like "JAC will make best endeavours to secure a release from his contract with Melbourne for 2021". JAC could argue that he tried and they said no, but it would be difficult to claim "best endeavours' if he then secures a release to us. We got his "best endeavours" and the Tuggers got his "second best endeavours".
My guess, and it's only a guess, is that there are a team of lawyers working on it currently, seeking out a way to negate the HOA, that's what I would be doing anyway.
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Could we argue that the release of Reimis Smith, who was still contracted to us, work in our favour? It was reported that the Tigpies were unwilling to do business in the way of a swap, where as we were happy to release, knowing it could help our chances of securing JAC's services for 2021?
Just a thought.