UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’

Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by lupire on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:13AM (#26914408)

You're comparing apples to oranges. "Ambulance chasers" (a terrible slur that looks down on weak victims pursuing justice), offer their services in a competitive market. If they charge too much, again, that should be determined by having a separate pool for fees separate from damages, and be a dispute between the perpetrator and the lawyer, not the victim and the lawyer.

The cost of the legal work is uncorrelated to the size of the damages.

Limiting legal fees just makes it not cost effective to pursue justice for smaller damages with more complex cases.

It's absurd bordering on evil to say the problem here is that people got paid too much for their excellent work (fighting against the resources of a corrupt major corporation and a corrupt major world government!) not that the perpetrators was under punished for their horrific crime.

The heroes who saved 700 people's lives deserve the money more than super-wealthy psychopathic perpetrators.

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Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by hobs on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:34AM (#26914585)

Then why not give them 99.9% of the take if they are such big heroes?

Because for the lawyers to get all the money each time harm happens means they more from harm to people than the people themselves benefit, this is a perverse incentive to keep the system exactly as it is for people who often become our lawmakers.

This also applies to 80/20 splits.

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Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by lupire on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:09PM (#26916843)

This response bears no relation to the topic at hand. As said earlier, the damages and the legal fees are two separate things that shout be kept separate.

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Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by robertlagrant on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:01AM (#26914864)

> a terrible slur that looks down on weak victims pursuing justice

No, you've misunderstood entirely.

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Re:UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corru... by mschuster91 on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:20AM (#26914461)

> "Ambulance chasers" (a terrible slur that looks down on weak victims pursuing justice), offer their services in a competitive market.

I wonder how other countries get by without "ambulance chasers". The only country I know that has them is the US, and their existence is the sign that something is fundamentally wrong.

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