In gnu.misc.discuss Andrew Halliwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Rahul Dhesi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rjack <[email protected]> writes: >>>GNU fans never lose, they just mooooooooooooooooooove the goalposts. >> I feel your pain. Asking for the maximum possible, and then settling for >> a lot less, is a common strategy that is, unfortunately, embedded into >> the adversary system of justice. >> Rjack, if it were up to you, how would you improve the system? Would you >> propose a rule that once a party asks for a certain amount, it is not >> permitted to take any less? How would you enforce this?
> The one thing that needs to be done to the system is Loser pays ALL bills, > both the plaintiff's and the accused's. I disagree. What needs doing is a thorough reform of legal systems throughout the world to improve their efficiency. Can anybody explain to me why a typical simple court case in the developed world takes 18 months to resolve and costs the loser one, or even several years' earnings? Realistically, I can't see why, say, a complaint against a neighbour whose plumbing is leaking couldn't be resolved within four weeks of the summons being served at a cost to the loser of at most a few hundred pounds/euros/dollars. Something a little (but not much) more complicated, SCO vs. IBM/Novell/.. shouldn't take more than 6 months at a total cost of at most a few ten thousands of dollars. Western legal systems make government IT projects look like the epitome of efficiency and good management. > It's already like that over here in the UK for most types of cases. > It'd stop a lot of fishing for out of court settlements if the accused was > no longer terrified of being bankrupted for being found not guilty. Where's > the justice in that? The innocent should face absolutely no consequences for > being willing to defend themselves and winning. And, let's be honest, the losing party shouldn't have to face bankruptcy either. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
