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[Ninurta]

Posted by Ninurta
It sounds almost like the BBC is planning to LOSE the case in court....

I think they know given the evidence their goose is cooked mate , in the States I believe your courts award punitive damages ours do not and I imagine an American President in an American court hold all the cards in this game , I foresee a big pay-out.

Sadly the BBC will be bailed out by the government when the time comes , the Establishment can't afford to see their propaganda channel to be sunk.

I don't pay the licence fee so I along with millions of other right minded Brits don't care what happens to the Ministry of Truth's outlet , let it burn I say.

Yeah, the courts here award punitive damages, typically 3x the amount of losses incurred, or, in the case of non-financial loss such as "loss of reputation", the sky is the limit because there is no dollar amount of losses to peg the award to.

The catch is, in international cases, the average Joe American can't very well just jaunt overseas and say "pony up or I'll break your kneecaps". So, in most cases like that, the awards are mostly symbolic. Trump, on the other hand, isn't the average Joe Citizen.

He could conceivably, do the leg breaking maneuver, but in this case he wouldn't. It just wouldn't be cricket to do that to Merry Olde England (Venezuela, maybe, but definitely not England), nor would it be necessary to do it against the BBC to collect - the BBC has assets in America that could be seized to satisfy the debt, at least in part. In order to avoid that asset seizure, it's likely that the BBC - and by extension, the Crown - would cough up the dough.

Another possible outcome would be the infamous "out of court settlement", where the parties agree to a settlement sum, usually "an undisclosed sum, and the defendant expressly does not admit to any wrongdoing - they just want to give the plaintiff money because they're good guys". to avoid a nasty court battle. I'm less sure that Trump would agree to an out of court settlement, however. I think he's in it to address the reputation damages attempted, and to deter any future such attempts. An out of court settlement would not accomplish that.

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