[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:27:46 +0100
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 7:11:24 PM, Paul Stone wrote:
>>The really interesting statistic is, our medical accident rate is
>>exactly the same as yours. (I was amazed!, I thought yours would be
>>smaller.)
>>
>>But here, even fewer cases make it to the courts, because it's almost
>>impossible to implement no win/no fee here.)
PS> Still more interesting [possibly] is that when I went to see a lawyer a=
bout
PS> possibly suing the doctors for jerking me around -- we don't have=20
PS> contingency fees here for lawyers --
they're fairly new here; I think the running down of Legal Aid brought
them in. BTW the contingency fee problem here is this: no win/no fee
and pro bono lawyers will waive their fees but court costs, levied by
the govt, remain.
PS> they told me that I could almost
PS> definitely win the case, but I would have to pony up $35,000 for him to
PS> even think about starting work on the case.
I know the problem from here (detailed stuff cut), it isn't quite so
bad here but the same kind of thing can happen.
-- I understand: I gave up on a clinical negligence case re my
mother's mal-treatment; my legal expenses insurance policy didn't
cover her.
PS> Methinks our drs and lawyers
PS> are in cahoots. Needless to say, I didn't sue. If only I would have bee=
n in
PS> a low-income group, I could have gotten free legal advice, nah, probably
PS> not for medical malpractice.
Anyone here can get free legal advice; and if they're
low-income, can get more, yes. I don't know what it's like there, but
here, the threshold to qualify for legal aid is very low now (it may
have been reasonable once), if you have more than =A314000 a year,
forget it! (Hence my legal expenses insurance policy.)
I'm surprised you don't have any contingency-fee type arrangements
there.
PS> thinking that life is just not fair, but reasonably happy anyway -- tod=
ay!
I'm thinking life isn't fair *and it is raining here again*!
Judy
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