The write-down was not made public until 1999 when a tribunal examined payments to politicians but there was no finding of impropriety.
Those hopes have been dashed.In four months of hearings, the tribunal examined allegations of misbehaviour by the accused parties during a snap election Mr Thaksin had called in April last year.
His poll ratings have slumped as the public and his coalition partners lost confidence in his credibility, following his evidence to a tribunal investigating payments to politicians.The tribunal is examining an allegation that he accepted a bribe when he was finance minister in the early 1990s.
In Wednesday's court of appeal judgment Dyson, along with Lord Justices Richards and Pitchford, said Grieve "had no good reason for overriding the meticulous decision" of the tribunal, which examined evidence from constitutional experts and arguments from barristers for the government and the Guardian.
Perhaps the most important argument of the Philippines is that the arbitral tribunal should examine (and ultimately invalidate) China's nine-dashed-line claims, which are based on pre-modern, questionable, and vague notion of "historical rights/waters".
The Competition Appeals Tribunal is currently examining that little spat over wholesaling obligations.
The tribunal is not examining whether the decision was right, he said, but whether it was arrived at in the right way.
Nitschke's lawyer, Peter Nugent, accused the tribunal of failing to "accept the evidence on the contentious issue of rational suicide" and said he would ask the supreme court to examine the tribunal's actions.
In 1999, a government anticorruption tribunal declined to examine the deal because the tribunal's chairman said he had a conflict of interest -- he owned a significant block of CRH stock.
In the cases brought against India and Pakistan, the court will examine whether the tribunal based in The Hague is competent to hear the lawsuits.
A judicial tribunal in Naples is examining how the video was disseminated.
