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Originally Posted by nekokami
Well, there's a true gentleman. I wonder if he did seek to recover court costs, however? It doesn't seem reasonable to me that someone who has been found to have been libeled should have to bear the cost of taking the libeler to court. Sir Rushdie can probably afford it, but that's not the point.
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In the British legal system, the loser generally has to pay both side's legal costs. That's one reason that we don't have the issue of frivolous court cases so common in the US.
Note, by the way, that he is correctly referred to as "Sir Salman". If he had a wife (he doesn't at present, although he's been through four of them so far) she would be "Lady Rushdie".