I Hope He's Learnt His Lesson,....

[trt]

if he is still in business.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/newsagent-who-threw-autistic-boy-out-of-shop-told-to-pay-22000-a3359836.html

[Baldric]

"What a mistaka to maka!!!"

[andy-hughes]

I would think so.

[Bazile]

The irony is that if he can't afford to pay and goes out of business ; no doubt he will then have to claim dole money ( or whatever it's called nowadays ) and will probably cost the tax payer much more than 20k in the long run

[Gromit]

Hi trt,
I am beginning to spot a theme.
All the nasty people in your posts are muslim.
That must mean all muslims are nasty.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Hi trt,
I am beginning to spot a theme.
All the nasty people in your posts are muslim.
That must mean all muslims are nasty. ///

Oh dear, oh dear here we go again, I knew this would happen as soon as I read that he was described as a Muslim shopkeeper.

[Lie-in King]

Stupid man, one would hope he's seen the error of his ways, yes.

Something occurred to me (I'm obviously not using the correct search terms in Google) & hope someone can enlighten me...

"(District Judge Christopher Vokes)...ordered him to pay James £6,775 in compensation for his “serious act of discrimination” and court costs of £15,225."

For any case really - assuming the ability to pay (but not necessarily all at once), does the law state who - the plaintiff or the Court - gets their payment first?

[hereIam]

Great outcome. That'll show the bigoted prat !

[Togo]

Hi Gromit,
I am beginning to spot a theme.
All the nasty people in your posts are British.
That must mean all the British are nasty.

[naomi24]

Muslims are notorious for their dislike of dogs. Hopefully other Muslim shopkeepers will read this report and take note.

[Barmaid]

LiK - because this was a civil action the costs which are referred to are the Claimant's costs that he has incurred with his solicitor. These will be solicitor's time costs plus disbursements (such as Court fees etc). The Defendant has been ordered to pay damages to the lad and his costs - thus there is a judgement against him of some £22,000 in favour of the Claimant.

The young man's mum will owe his solicitors the costs. So assuming that she is able to recover in full, that is fine. If she only recovers in part, it would make sense to pay off the solicitors' fees first.

However, there will be other issues to take into account here - the Claimant is under 18 and there are rules on recovery of costs where this is the case. It is also possible that any irrecoverable costs may be covered by an insurance policy, a conditional fee agreement or public funding.

[Lie-in King]

Barmaid - thank you very much for the interesting info :-)

[fiction-factory]

Gromit- at least this story is up to date rather than the story that was about 8 months old earlier.