"Your report contains no reference to any contract between Tower Hamlets Council and LOCOG about holding any 2012 Games event in the Borough. Should the Council have attended to this a bit sooner? Or is the judicial review application a stunt that the Council’s ‘top lawyer’ hopes will produce a result by default? The default being the embarrassment factor playing against the LOCOG over ‘diversity’ and ‘ethnicity’ issues rather than on any tangible contractual basis? You also don’t say what evidence of what legal liability on LOCOG you actually saw in the legal papers that state to have seen! The contents of your report do not show any convincing legal ground for Tower Hamlets claim. Which raises the question: what is the reason for this judicial review as opposed to organising the people in Tower Hamlets to make a democratic demand on LOCOG? That way, the costs would be a fraction of what the Council bureaucrats must be paying to external lawyers whether on the record or not. 1348 Hrs Tuesday 09 November 2010 Bhangeelaar! the Campaign against an elected mayor in Tower Hamlets Bhangeelaar! the Campaign against an elected mayor in Tower Hamlets, London, 09/11/2010 13:52
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London Olympic chiefs are facing a High Court challenge over their decision to re-route the 2012 marathon away from the East End.
Tower Hamlets council believes that Lord Coe's 2012 organising committee is guilty of an “abuse of power” in switching the route of the men's and women's races to central London.
It says London 2012 has broken a “clear, unambiguous and unqualified” promise contained within formal documents, from 2005 when the capital won the right to host the Games, to finish both races in the Olympic stadium in Stratford. Today's move follows advice to the council from a QC and re-ignites a bitter row over the 26-mile route.
The council's application for a judicial review — which could see the High Court order London 2012 back to the drawing board — is believed to be unprecedented in terms of one of the host boroughs challenging Games organisers.
According to documents seen by the Standard, the council's top lawyer believes it has grounds to challenge London 2012's decision that it would have been logistically impossible to finish the race in the Olympic stadium.
Organisers state that a central route, starting with a loop of St James's Park followed by three circuits past landmarks such as St Paul's Cathedral and the London Eye, will be better for spectators and alleviate transport issues.
But Tower Hamlets, now the only one of the five host boroughs without a single competition, said London 2012 had breached its own diversity policy by ignoring such a racially-mixed borough. Lutfur Rahman, the executive mayor of Tower Hamlets, said organisers had acted unlawfully and “failed to adhere to the spirit of the original bid which sought to showcase east London, including the East End”.
“We're concerned that Tower Hamlets will be little more than a glorified thoroughfare between the City of London and the Olympic Park,” he said.
It has also been announced that motorists are to be banned from using the outside lane and turning right on some of London's busiest roads during the Olympics, to ensure athletes and officials can travel between venues without getting stuck in traffic.
A 60-mile Olympic route network will cover 500 roads, with drivers facing £200 fines for entering during the Games.
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