The father has a recent conviction for drug possession and no job, yet UK legal aid still allowed him to bring this suit and apparently is paying the US lawyers $700 an hour for their services. Now our UK friends know where there tax dollars are going. Paul On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Jim King wrote:
> keith_w wrote on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:58:07 -0800: >> (snip) >> Misleading! >> As I understand it, that child is in the custody of the mother, and >> both >> are currently living with blood relatives. It's not as tho' it were >> kidnapped to a foreign country by non-parents. > > Exactly! My problem is that one can apparently be brought into > court, requiring expensive legal representation, for reasons having > to do more with malice than with equity. The legal system needs to > filter out cases without merit before allowing charges or a tort to > be brought, and there should be consequences for those bringing > baseless cases before the court. Our system seems to reward lawyers > for such behavior. > > But then, I'm not a lawyer; what do I know? > > Regards, Jim > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
