WTF... gotta feel for the boss
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WTF... gotta feel for the boss
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so the thief gets a soggy bus ticket punishment, and the guy trying to provide real punishment (and a very restrained sort too) loses his house.
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The boss should counter sue for betray of trust and stress.Originally Posted by mashman
Agreed you have to feel for the boss. I would say he should have gone to court but the lawyer fees would have cost him more.
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The old saying " the law is an ass" rings true in this case, unfortunately this is more common than people realise.
Employee theft has sent a number of good small business' to the wall in my experience.
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Very common in the UK, case law is littered with these kinds of issues where the perpetrator (scumbag) gets away scot free whilst the victim (innocent) gets royally shafted.
Defending and protecting what's yours has become more of a criminal act than the criminal act.
Oh bugger
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I'm assuming he did as he had 30,000 pounds of legal fees and had to pay 5k compensation... 30k legal fees, fackin hell, and the advice, settle out of courtThe boss should counter sue for betray of trust and stress.
Agreed you have to feel for the boss. I would say he should have gone to court but the lawyer fees would have cost him more.... I understand people are stubborn, but the legal profession really don't give a shit as long as they have billable hours.
that says it all really.
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I thought that was the legal fees for settling out of court, crap knows what they would have been if he had have gone to court cause then you have the barrister as well as the solicitor to pay. If he had won he might have possibly got an order on the thief to pay his legal fees but would have still ended up homeless as you can bet the tealeaf would not pay.I'm assuming he did as he had 30,000 pounds of legal fees and had to pay 5k compensation... 30k legal fees, fackin hell, and the advice, settle out of court
Quote Originally Posted by martybabe
Defending and protecting what's yours has become more of a criminal act than the criminal act.
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heh, not sure, it just struck me as an obscene amount of money to have to pay for not going to court... and if that's what it costs to not go to court, like you say, I'm not surprised he settled... true
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Now you have me thinking. This is really ridiculous. By the time you take the pressure on the family etc from losing the home he could have topped the bastard, lived off the state for 10 or so years in one of their holiday camps and then started again, probably with state assistance.heh, not sure, it just struck me as an obscene amount of money to have to pay for not going to court... and if that's what it costs to not go to court, like you say, I'm not surprised he settled... true
i don't recommend or condone the above from me but it is getting to that stage.
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, you got me to wondering so it's all your fault
Curmudgeon
Due process.so the thief gets a soggy bus ticket punishment, and the guy trying to provide real punishment (and a very restrained sort too) loses his house.
Day in court.
Judgement of your peers.
Sound familar?
If you can go around doing stuff like that, what's the point of having a judicial system? Bosses providing instant punishment for workers - a very slippery slope...
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hold on!!
He said his fees where $4000 for defending the case and their fees are $25,000 prosecuting him!
Fark off he's gettin ripped! Their legal fees should be similar to his surely? Tell them to go jump!
Thats aside from the injustice of the whole thing in the first place!!
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Indeed. I suppose as an alternative one could either choose to use the due process, (whether one agrees with it or not) or make an arrangement with alleged thief to publicly humiliate instead of taking him to the local constabulary, thus keeping a clean record, but not both.
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5000 in compensation.
4000 in his own legal costs.
The balance was entirely for the thief's legal costs...
Who'd he get legal advice from? The thief's lawyer?
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