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Tuart Hall To Be Sued - What A Surprise
I did say a week or so back on this forum that many of these people who are bringing up old cases like Stuart Hall's case are doing it mainly to extract money from the "rich and famous".
Well here we have proof, a number of people are now going to sue Stuart Hall.
What next, adverts on TV saying "Been molested by a famous person- go to web site ive_been_molested.com - there is no win no fee".
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Well here we have proof, a number of people are now going to sue Stuart Hall.
What next, adverts on TV saying "Been molested by a famous person- go to web site ive_been_molested.com - there is no win no fee".
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It's a fair point, Sqad. I think the law is astute enough to weed out the nebulous claims. I think some of the victims who are more stoical and have not really suffered (because it does not follow that everyone will suffer long term psychological effects after being abused - horrific as any abuse may be) will either not have a claim or a low level claim.
However, undoubtedly some of the victims will have sought medical help and counselling as a result of their experience and they will have significant historical evidence to back up their claims and it will have had a significant impact in several areas of their lives.
No point in me telling you that different people respond to pscyhological traumas in different ways since I am preaching to the converted - that is why the Judicial College Guidelines (the guidelines which all civil courts use in the assessment of damages for personal injury) group psychological trauma into 4 categories, with rising damages - mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe.
If anyone is really interested, I'll post that section of the JCB G/Ls on how damages are calculated.
I also agree with you about some medical reports not being worth the paper they are written on. Generally the worst I have seen are for minor whippy (but generally by the time the report is written the injury has completely resolved). That's money for old rope. Some of the *best* reports I have seen have been dealing with high level psychological trauma.
However, undoubtedly some of the victims will have sought medical help and counselling as a result of their experience and they will have significant historical evidence to back up their claims and it will have had a significant impact in several areas of their lives.
No point in me telling you that different people respond to pscyhological traumas in different ways since I am preaching to the converted - that is why the Judicial College Guidelines (the guidelines which all civil courts use in the assessment of damages for personal injury) group psychological trauma into 4 categories, with rising damages - mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe.
If anyone is really interested, I'll post that section of the JCB G/Ls on how damages are calculated.
I also agree with you about some medical reports not being worth the paper they are written on. Generally the worst I have seen are for minor whippy (but generally by the time the report is written the injury has completely resolved). That's money for old rope. Some of the *best* reports I have seen have been dealing with high level psychological trauma.
I am really struggling to understand quite why there is so much outrage about the victims of these sex-offenders seeking financial recompense for having been violated.
Would you all feel better if these women (and in a few instances, men, too) were more 'noble' about their suffering by not seeking recompense?
Does it diminish their standing, in your eyes, because they do?
You can have absolutely no idea how the sexual attacks they underwent have affected their lives and if they believe that relieving Hall of some of his money will go some way to helping them in the future, why shouldn't they?
Would you all feel better if these women (and in a few instances, men, too) were more 'noble' about their suffering by not seeking recompense?
Does it diminish their standing, in your eyes, because they do?
You can have absolutely no idea how the sexual attacks they underwent have affected their lives and if they believe that relieving Hall of some of his money will go some way to helping them in the future, why shouldn't they?
If Stuart Hall had raped a 9 year old girl a few months ago, say, rather than 30/40 years ago, would you still find it objectionable that he is being relieved of his money? I'm guessing not.
If I'm right about that, then what exactly is the difference? After how long, exactly, does it become sort of okay to have a raped a child? After how many years should someone who has been sexually assaulted just shrug it off and forget about it?
If I'm right about that, then what exactly is the difference? After how long, exactly, does it become sort of okay to have a raped a child? After how many years should someone who has been sexually assaulted just shrug it off and forget about it?
The "outrage" is based on the assumption that people will make false claims of being assaulted, in the hope that they can blackmail the man into paying out. Professionally advised, or applying common sense on his own, he will never make an offer.
There is a risk that a woman will be sufficiently persuasive that CPS will allow the case to get to court and she will perjure herself there effectively enough to get a conviction. That is far more theoretical than real. What is far more likely is that a genuine and truthful woman will, in all innocence, have been approached by some paper for her exclusive story, When that emerges, the jury has doubts about her account and acquits
There is a risk that a woman will be sufficiently persuasive that CPS will allow the case to get to court and she will perjure herself there effectively enough to get a conviction. That is far more theoretical than real. What is far more likely is that a genuine and truthful woman will, in all innocence, have been approached by some paper for her exclusive story, When that emerges, the jury has doubts about her account and acquits
I'm afraid I can see no reason to assume that money will, in any way, be of any help to these victims. Surely it is enough to see the perpetrator named and shamed, and have to serve time in prison.
A better solution would be for damages to be extracted from the perpetrator and donated to assist charities such as rape crisis centres which would go some way toward protecting future victims of these dreadful crimes.
A better solution would be for damages to be extracted from the perpetrator and donated to assist charities such as rape crisis centres which would go some way toward protecting future victims of these dreadful crimes.
I may have misunderstood, but are some of you saying that some people can be sexually assaulted or raped, and it has NO effect on them? I think people who have lived with these bad memories for years are entitled to compensation, and I hope that EVERYONE who has ever been abused will come forward and get it off their chest, and this in turn will help future victims to have the courage to tell someone.
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