fffffucking hell, lads, worth a read
@SoozUK Particularly that if damages are below the settlement offered, he'd have to pay legal costs. Doesn't sit right how perfectly that gives billionaires such a direct buy-out from publically heard justice.
@SoozUK Sounds so much like American justice. The rich get away with so much.
@SoozUK Yeah, it’s insane that if you force a trial and win, you can still end up millions in debt while the other side pretty much gets let off their lawyers fees. All so they can lie and say “we don’t do what we were accused of but paid up anyway”
@SoozUK But a bit depressing- so easy for very rich people to end legal challenges with little repercussion 🫤
@SoozUK The few times when Our Side get a result shouldn't distract from what we're looking at: the law is an efficient way, tempered by history, for high-resource classes to come to an arrangement, with manageably acceptable consequences.