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Originally Posted by Taf

As suspected, the lawyers are lining up at the trough. How are negotiations supposed to be worked out if you have to publicly vote on your stance beforehand?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37857785

Lawyers always win. The more complex and convoluted they can make matters the more they, as a profession, have to gain from the resulting legal chaos - appeals, challenges etc. etc. etc. IMHO the legal process is, often, being abused simply to delay proceedings, stall decisions etc. and the result is that just about everything takes much longer than it needed and some things never get done at all. Heathrow expansion has and will continue to be a classic example of this problem - the lawyers will have a field day.