‘Where’s the verdict?’ Sky asks EDS judge

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A law suit between BSkyB and software house EDS has been rumbling through the London courts for some years. £700m is at stake, and BSkyB’s lawyers are beginning to wonder what has happened to the verdict. The case wrapped up more than a year ago.

BSkyB has argued in Court that a customer management system to be supplied by EDS and ordered in 2000 was meant to have cost £48m, but instead cost £265m and took six years to install.

The costs are already astronomical, at more than £70m according to reports in specialists publication The Lawyer. The last submissions were made in the heat of July 2008, but another hot and expensive summer has come and gone and still there’s no news. Presiding judge in the matter, Mr Justice Ramsey, has evidently been sitting on the verdict for all this time.

“Maybe it’s because it’s such an important case, but it’s still a year whichever way you look at it,” said a source, speaking to The Lawyer. “Ramsey’s sitting on other cases in the Technology and Construction Court - it’s up to him and his clerk to manage his caseload so judgments can be written.”

The report suggests that Mr Justice Ramsay’s office has “repeatedly” told barristers in the case that his verdict was “imminent”, most recently in September.


Source:RapidTVNews