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- Subject: Re: Law Suits!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.014316.9413@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
- From: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 01:43:16 GMT
- References: <ufessex.721460742@mcl> <BxK7Jo.3ws@world.std.com> <1992Nov18.011845.3805@nas.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
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- In article <1992Nov18.011845.3805@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >The right to sue is intimately tied to issues of free speech.
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- I don't think so: we in NZ have all the rights of "free speech", yet have no
- rights to sue for accidents.
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- >Do you want to forego these rights?
-
- It's a two-edged sword. Our state-funded Accident Compensation scheme no
- longer pays out as generously as before. Payments for "loss of enjoyment
- of life" have been discontinued for example. There is a possibility that
- the law will be changed to allow sueing after all.
-
- May we live in interesting times :-)
-
- --
- Hugh Grierson Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand - Software Development Centre
- hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz Speaking for myself only. See figure 1.
- Quote of the decade: "We're not just talking about unpopulated areas
- of the Southern Hemisphere anymore" [Pres. Bush, on the Ozone hole]
-