>Seren John-Wood, a 30-year-old community worker who is charged with criminal damage alongside two other defendants in relation to the City of London protest, said: “This is an unprecedented and unusual extra step that is being conducted parallel to criminal proceedings.
>“The burden of proof is significantly lower in civil courts. We believe that in a criminal court we will be found not guilty. In a civil court, they will have an extremely unfair advantage; we are unable to afford legal representation whereas, according to their own annual report, they made a record operating profit of €17.4bn (£15.1bn) last year. There is no legal aid available for civil courts.”
>Anna Letts, 44, a teacher charged in relation to the same protest, said: “We are people who work and volunteer with refugees and asylum seekers, in homelessness services, with children and young people and, like most working people in the UK, live paycheck to paycheck. Being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds means decades of money being deducted from salaries that barely cover our rent as it is.”
This is delicious.
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Reading the ‘poor me’ sobbings of the criminals is rather amusing. Boo fucking hoo, if it isn’t the consequences of your actions.
Probably one of the first times in their lives they might actually be held accountable.
Quagers on
What I find hilarious about this is the whole point of civil disobedience is that its power comes from demonstrating how firmly you believe in your cause, because you are willing to suffer the consequences of your actions.
Fucking shit up because you assumed there would be no consequences has no power at all, its just childish vandalism!
B0797S458W on
Fucking lol. Really should have thought about that before you did it then! Being sued by a multinational obviously scares them a lot more than getting temporarily banged up. Hopefully this encourages more companies to do the same
NonagoonInfinity on
We really think it’s a good thing that a multibillion corporation is going to retributively spend more money than they could ever possibly receive in compensation to castigatively bankrupt some people?
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>Seren John-Wood, a 30-year-old community worker who is charged with criminal damage alongside two other defendants in relation to the City of London protest, said: “This is an unprecedented and unusual extra step that is being conducted parallel to criminal proceedings.
>“The burden of proof is significantly lower in civil courts. We believe that in a criminal court we will be found not guilty. In a civil court, they will have an extremely unfair advantage; we are unable to afford legal representation whereas, according to their own annual report, they made a record operating profit of €17.4bn (£15.1bn) last year. There is no legal aid available for civil courts.”
>Anna Letts, 44, a teacher charged in relation to the same protest, said: “We are people who work and volunteer with refugees and asylum seekers, in homelessness services, with children and young people and, like most working people in the UK, live paycheck to paycheck. Being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds means decades of money being deducted from salaries that barely cover our rent as it is.”
This is delicious.
Reading the ‘poor me’ sobbings of the criminals is rather amusing. Boo fucking hoo, if it isn’t the consequences of your actions.
Probably one of the first times in their lives they might actually be held accountable.
What I find hilarious about this is the whole point of civil disobedience is that its power comes from demonstrating how firmly you believe in your cause, because you are willing to suffer the consequences of your actions.
Fucking shit up because you assumed there would be no consequences has no power at all, its just childish vandalism!
Fucking lol. Really should have thought about that before you did it then! Being sued by a multinational obviously scares them a lot more than getting temporarily banged up. Hopefully this encourages more companies to do the same
We really think it’s a good thing that a multibillion corporation is going to retributively spend more money than they could ever possibly receive in compensation to castigatively bankrupt some people?