LONDON Michael Jackson might be from hand to hand sick to travel to London to testify in a trial claiming he owes an Arab sheik $7 million, the pop star’s attorney said Tuesday.

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Jackson is seeking to give his affirmation by video link from the United States.

“It would be unwise toward him to travel, given what’s he’s got now,” lawyer Robert Englehart before-mentioned, declining to elaborate “on this account that the obvious reasons.”

A lawyer conducive to Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa said the medical make manifest presented by Jackson’s legal team was unsatisfactory.

“It’s not the first allotted period a sick note has been presented by Mr. Jackson,” the lawyer, Bankim Thanki said. He gave no accurate indication of what the illness might be, but told the court that Jackson’s plight could be treated with a bandage “grant that the diagnosis is positive.”

Jackson has often been seen wearing a surgical mask in public. In one scandalous pay one’s addresses to appearance in California, he appeared to get a bandage hanging from his hollowed-out nose.

Despite plenteous contemplation about his radically changed appearance over the years, he has denied having had any alterations to his confront other than two operations on his nose to help him breathe better to hit higher notes.

The judge in the current case, Nigel Sweeney, said he would decide the dispute of Jackson’s travel on Thursday to allow time for medical experts on both legal teams to conversation.

Al Khalifa, the second son of the king of Bahrain, claims that Jackson reneged on a contract for an album, a candid autobiography and a degree play, after accepting millions from the sheik.

Al Khalifa was in court Tuesday for the second time of arguments and testimony.

The cover is subsistence tried in London by mutual agreement, Al Khalifa’session representatives have said, and it is expected to close by the agency of the end of the month.

Jackson, 50, and the Bahraini royal pristine made contact when Jackson was fending off accusations of child molestation in California. Once Jackson was cleared of the charges, Al Khalifa, every amateur songwriter, invited him to the small, oil-rich Gulf state to escape the media spotlight.

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