Should I sue Reading? A moral dilema...

[MikeH]

I don't know anyone high up, I just know poorly paid flunkeys.

[Rogan Josh]

Sue the bastards for all they're worth.

[MikeH]

£2.56

[Verres]

. Maybe it isnt worth it...

[Jack_www]

If this was US, they would be sued faster then you can blink your eyes. People here in the US are not as slow or have second thoughts about filling a law suit. I guess it is different in Europe.

[MikeH]

It is.

It's harder to win because people assume that people should use common sense, also in the UK at least the compensation is decided by the judge not a jury.

So if you have, say, 3 months off work your compensation is likely to be 3 months pay + maybe a small amount extra to cover costs etc.

[Jack_www]

I would sue if I had medical bills as a result of this and if I had to miss work and it was a lot of money that it cost me, money that I did not had and I would try to sue in small claims court. I dont think a layer will take the case anyways, you would never get enough money.

[MikeH]

Oh yeah, we have free healthcare as well don't forget.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by MikeH
£2.56

Was this the ebay valuation?
Anyway, I'll see your £2.56 and I'll raise you 30p!
I could use some flunkies after the grisly death of my last slave.

[Atahualpa]

and i dont blame my accident on the organisers

well that says it all I guess

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by MikeH
Oh yeah, we have free healthcare as well don't forget.

Oh yeah it is financed by taxes dont forget

there is nothing like a free healthcare only that in europe everyone pays for you and you pay for everyone and in the US you pay for yourself and others give a rats ass.

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[Whaleboy]

Maybe it isnt worth it...

Perhaps, but still they shouldn't have let that many people there (at least, thats the line the lawyer will probably take).

You could get in contact with some bloodsucker organisation like Claims Direct or something... you know the kind that plague the commercial breaks of the History Channel . They might be able to tell you.

However, while you might get some money, law suits brought by an individual against an organisation doesn't work wonders for your employability, lest you decide to sue your future bosses for injury or harrasment etc, which they might think is more likely if you have sued before. I dunno, just a thought... its been a long day! If you did decide to sue, you might have possible problems with the length of earnings issue because you're in school and didn't miss any lessons (IIRC?).

However, on a more general note, moral dillemmas need not apply to companies. They'd screw you for all theyre worth if they got the chance.. get in your pre-emptive strike (and who says that paranoia can't be profitable?).

But i am Joe public! (or Josephine, anyway)

You've met my mother, now I'm scared!

Laters!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Jack_www
If this was US, they would be sued faster then you can blink your eyes. People here in the US are not as slow or have second thoughts about filling a law suit. I guess it is different in Europe.

That's so not true. It's just that with 280 million of us to choose from, the media gets to have a field day with the wackiest examples. I, for example, have not sued two people who owe me thousands of dollars. I really have an aversion to going to court.

[chequita guevara]

You won't get any money because you've posted here you're just doing it for the money and people here will tell on you.

[Whaleboy]

che: You one of those guys that goes around firebombing those who trip you up in the street? If so, I owe you a beer!