I don't follow the way you've chosen to characterise the situation. The VOC faction took ... without authority ... BNP property and the membership lists. The BNP ... as a precursor to legal action ... would have had to have shown that it had taken all reasonable steps to recover the items in question by negotiation. This it will have done. And, failing any success in obtaining restitution by negotiation, legal action became the only recourse. Why didn't the 'rebels' hand back what was not theirs to have and use? Surely, the reason they were sued is their own fault? raffles has such an issue with Griffin he seems to support anyone who opposes him.