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**sam** · 01-22-2012, 07:52 AM

According to the article maybe, but a solicitor who deals with a lot of cases involving the Criminal Injuries Compensation people told me that getting any money is like getting blood out of a stone. I think you would, in practice, need a conviction to get a pay-out. He said the firm makes a lot more money suing on behalf of 'whiplash victims' Easy gig, up to £8,000 for a couple of hours on the phone, and you can keep maybe a grand or so. I fear that gravy train may have departed by the time I become a lawyer, should I do so.

I don't think it would be worth it for the hassle, and isn't the £11,000 the maximum figure, not a guaranteed sum?

I have two objections:

1) She will most likely get money out of her insurance, if she has one.

2) For a woman with no job, or that is in need of money for some other reason, it's worth the hassle.

That would be highly illegal and you would be going down for perverting the course of justice if you made such an offer, meanwhile all of your credibility as a witness would have been destroyed and the rape trial would inevitably collapse.

1) Right now women who admit to filing false reports are not prosecuted, unless they do it several times. I doubt any prosecutor wants to go after a "rape victim".

2) It's not an admission of wrongdoing on your (the victim's) part. You just didn't want to go through the "torment" of a trial.

3) If you go through a third party, you can deny, and still keep some (most?) of your credibility in court.

Maybe so, but rape charges seem to stick, the cops will assume the woman has been intimidated or is embarrassed if she changes her story, now perhaps a rape case can't survive without it's key witness, but that doesn't mean the police will give up easily. I suspect they would treat any attempt to change your story as a sign you were either intimidated into doing so or your story was a pack of lies from the word go.

Yeah, there's no guarantee that you'll be able to recant, I agree with that. But for £10,000 it might be worth a try.

---------- Post added 2012-01-22 at 01:54 ----------

Blaming women because of what they wear is ridiculous, if that was a good argument then there would be a massive amount of rape in nudist resorts.

Um, there's a reason to why nobody gets raped at a nudist resort.

01-22-2012, 07:52 AM	#19
sam Join Date Oct 2005 Age 44 Posts 517 Senior Member	According to the article maybe, but a solicitor who deals with a lot of cases involving the Criminal Injuries Compensation people told me that getting any money is like getting blood out of a stone. I think you would, in practice, need a conviction to get a pay-out. He said the firm makes a lot more money suing on behalf of 'whiplash victims' Easy gig, up to £8,000 for a couple of hours on the phone, and you can keep maybe a grand or so. I fear that gravy train may have departed by the time I become a lawyer, should I do so. I don't think it would be worth it for the hassle, and isn't the £11,000 the maximum figure, not a guaranteed sum? I have two objections: 1) She will most likely get money out of her insurance, if she has one. 2) For a woman with no job, or that is in need of money for some other reason, it's worth the hassle. That would be highly illegal and you would be going down for perverting the course of justice if you made such an offer, meanwhile all of your credibility as a witness would have been destroyed and the rape trial would inevitably collapse. 1) Right now women who admit to filing false reports are not prosecuted, unless they do it several times. I doubt any prosecutor wants to go after a "rape victim". 2) It's not an admission of wrongdoing on your (the victim's) part. You just didn't want to go through the "torment" of a trial. 3) If you go through a third party, you can deny, and still keep some (most?) of your credibility in court. Maybe so, but rape charges seem to stick, the cops will assume the woman has been intimidated or is embarrassed if she changes her story, now perhaps a rape case can't survive without it's key witness, but that doesn't mean the police will give up easily. I suspect they would treat any attempt to change your story as a sign you were either intimidated into doing so or your story was a pack of lies from the word go. Yeah, there's no guarantee that you'll be able to recant, I agree with that. But for £10,000 it might be worth a try. ---------- Post added 2012-01-22 at 01:54 ---------- Blaming women because of what they wear is ridiculous, if that was a good argument then there would be a massive amount of rape in nudist resorts. Um, there's a reason to why nobody gets raped at a nudist resort.
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