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[–]QueenBread 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So soon? I guess this means things are taking a turn for the worse far earlier than I expected. The lawsuits must already be beginning to pile up?

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No, I suspect it’s because a vast swathe of untouchable ideologically captured staff just got made redundant along with even more whistleblowers reporting the goings on at Tavistock. Added to a growing public willingness to see the insanity of the whole thing.

Lawsuits aren’t a massive weapon here because damages are limited to actual damages, there’s no threat of punitive damages. Damages awards tend to be based on things like lost earnings, future costs of care, cost to put right etc. So whilst it’s not unheard of for a child who suffered an injury at birth (oxygen deprivation etc) to be awarded several million pounds, that will be based on what the costs of care will be for the rest of the child’s life (parent having to give up work, specialist nurses or equipment, education provision etc). You are never getting an award like the Alex Jones award in an English court, unless you can prove that you incurred a £900m cost.