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Originally Posted by HarryT
Really, though, you do have to admit that she brought it entirely upon her own head. She was offered a reasonable out-of-court settlement, refused it, and then tried to make a fool out of the jury, which the jury duly punished her for. In any legal system in which damages are decided by the jury, that sort of thing is liable to happen.
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Granted, in this case the defendant was an idiot. But the fact that such penalties are even possible in a civil trial, with a much lower burden of proof, could easily be argued as being unjust.