Spare a copper guv....?

[davem]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

If New Line is found negligent, can they not be required to pay the Trust's legal costs?

If they are - but, in the words of the great E.L. Wisty "British justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be ..believed" & I've no doubt American justice is not too different

The real point though, is that even if the Trust do succeed & get their costs awarded (by no means guaranteed, & even if they do what's left of New Line may claim they have no cash to pay it) they have still to spend money fighting the case which they could be donating to charities in real need. Or in other words a lot of real suffering by real human beings will have continued which wouldn't have continued if New Line hadn't been a bunch of 'creative accountants'. Not to mention what the Trust could have done over the last 8 years with the profits they should have got.