Perhaps we might remind them we legislated to break international law, when we tell them we will never forget when they accidentally put a border in Ireland.
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tsubaki
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an unredacted copy of the contract should have been available all along, mind - so should our contract with them (which we aren't releasing, on national security grounds (!))
I'd also urge everyone who quoted with approval what the CEO of AZ said in that interview a few days ago to go back and compare what he said with what the contract says, by the way.
At least they realised very quickly.
Yes it absolutely should've
NorthernBlue
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Quite comforting to know it’s not just us being lead by incompetent idiots.
That's true for absolutely any contract a government or entity answerable to the people/taxpayer signs. Not a utopian world though unfortunately.
Plenty of case law on best efforts/endeavors and reasonable efforts/endeavors.
I would imagine best reasonable efforts amounts to reasonable.
Damage done though mate. Irish government will be "wtf?" about this, completely undermined, whole principle of protecting the peace process in Ireland thrown out the window at earliest opportunity just to have a pop at Britain and basically label them thieves.
The Irish won't forget that; the DUP will be making a play out of that for years to come.
tsubaki
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it shouldn't be though - it isn't even that utopian an ideal, that we who fund the government should know what our money is spent on
Contract law isn't my forté, but if applying common sense then if the AZ supply chain has broken due to unforeseen circumstances, then that's two things - one, a breach of contract, as they aren't supplying the vaccine, but second I can't see how anyone could really say they haven't put best efforts in unless they prove they could have foreseen it and didn't fix it (good luck with proving that in regards to a medicine developed within a year) and/or when noted it was rectified quick enough - again, the timeframe doesn't suit a claimant there.
Occam's Razor again for me - EU ordered late, supply chain buckled, new product developed at warp speed needing to be scaled up massively to blame, 'it is what it is'.
tsubaki
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the thing I'd point out here is that "best efforts" here is defined as (apparently) signing a deal with one subcontractor whose (if you believe AZ) failure knocked out 60% of the vaccine supply for the entire content at the worst possible time
it isn't really going to fly, that defence
arminisgod
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AZ also lowered our schedule by 80%.
Why wouldn't it?
Again, talking about a product that didn't exist 12 months ago. If I'm a Judge I'm laughing any attempt out of court which tries to state AZ should have had fifty plants raring and ready to go with a product that wasn't even approved for sale anywhere until 3-4 weeks ago.
tsubaki
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... and that would be absurd, but if you think "best efforts" could be described as hiring a subcontractor to deliver something for an entire continent from one plant, then I have a lovely bridge to sell you.
The cynic might believe that, after their initial failure to support weaker countries at the outset, they sense that another cock up over vaccine would lead some horrid people to suspect that the Commission isn't all it's cracked up to be. And like all weak entities, they overcompensate with a little foot stamping.
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