Lawyers prove their `quality` by using technicalities to circumvent the truth. No `legal basis` for contesting? That is because no court is willing to take a case. Everyone with jurisdiction is running for cover.
I recomend that he and all those who have sold their souls to the devil start refunding and coming clean. It will pay dividends down the road.
In the new Government that is formed (getting ahead of myself) there should be no Lawyers. As a class they have invalidated their whole discipline wrt to Government of, by and for the people.