Slave descendants to sue Lloyd's

[Wazzerphuk]

Fucking idiots, I'm tempted to say something sick and controversial for a cheap laugh.

Please do. No-one else has the balls these days to.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I hope they win the case. Then others can rip money out off the backsides of corporations! Rich for all!

 

[Munkey]

UK is turning into america for the sheer amount of litigatious cases. Needs some reigning in i believe

 

[Jonaldo]

Imagine a relative being hit by a car (well don't but you know what I mean). Being able to sue the people who insure that car aswell as the driver? Isn't this almost what this case would imply? The fact that a company insures the property of people commiting foul acts does not make them liable for prosecution in any way. In my opinion of course.

 

[leggy]

Please do. No-one else has the balls these days to.

Lies, listen to this:

"I have a slight aversion to homosexuals who play a popular microsoft games console"

pwnz0red!!113

 

[Custodian]

I am definately with the bollox brigade.
All this money grabbing absolutely appals me. People are terrified to do anything helpfull nowadays cos some money grabber will sue if anything as simple as a split hair happens as a result.
Don't build a playground for the kids, cos some parent will sue if jonny cuts his arm.
Don't offer first aid to the dieing, cos the relatives will sue if you fail to actually save them.
Don't do anything for anyone, that way you are safe.

And trying to gain money from things that happened years ago really is pure greed and sod all to do with any justice. When was money ever justice.

And they wonder why society is falling apart.

 

[SilverHood]

I am definately with the bollox brigade.
All this money grabbing absolutely appals me. People are terrified to do anything helpfull nowadays cos some money grabber will sue if anything as simple as a split hair happens as a result.
Don't build a playground for the kids, cos some parent will sue if jonny cuts his arm.
Don't offer first aid to the dieing, cos the relatives will sue if you fail to actually save them.
Don't do anything for anyone, that way you are safe.

And trying to gain money from things that happened years ago really is pure greed and sod all to do with any justice. When was money ever justice.

And they wonder why society is falling apart.

Aye, when staff on ferries and airlines ask if a doctor is on board, the doctors won't help now, because of the fear that they will get sued if it goes wrong (any help is better than no help, IMHO) and get sued if the person gets well, but caused some distress (like being resucitated (sp?).

It's a farce, everyone knows it, but no one is in a position to change it.

 

[Doh_boy]

Don't quote me but I heard somewhere that some councils (north west I imagine) can't spend enough money repairing roads because all the budget goes to paying litigation. If that's true that's one of the most retarded things I've heard in a while.

 

[xane]

the doctors won't help now, ...

That's a load of bollocks, doctors are required to take the Hippocratic Oath or its modern equivilent.

 

[xane]

Don't quote me but I heard somewhere that some councils (north west I imagine) can't spend enough money repairing roads because all the budget goes to paying litigation. If that's true that's one of the most retarded things I've heard in a while.

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA4A3.htm

 

[SilverHood]

That's a load of bollocks, doctors are required to take the Hippocratic Oath or its modern equivilent.

They don't have a legal duty help people, regardless of whatever oath's they've taken.

The TV show was about doctors wanting airlines to to take responsibility when asking for doctors among the passengers, since the doctors get sued, and not the airlines if there's a libel case.

 

[xane]

A doctor would still not refuse, legalities or not.

 

[Driwen]

I hope they win the case. Then others can rip money out off the backsides of corporations! Rich for all!

if they win than UK seems to have legal system as the US, which is basically in favour of corporations as they can stall and press the legal fees so high that normal people cant afford it anymore. So besides it being ridiculous for sueing someone what happened to someone your grandma didnt even know, that is another reason I hope this case is dismist.

Btw sueing loyds for money they gained ages back isnt on itself bad, if you can prove that what they did was illegal and is still harming you now. As loyds have benefit from that money, but I really doubt these people have suffered any real problems, because their ancestors were slaves as you are talking about something happened 200 years ago and that has zero effect on someones life today (hell enough afro americans are succesful nowadays so why not them?).

 

[Tom]

if you can prove that what they did was illegal .

Slavery was a legal trade, in fact England started it.

 

[Driwen]

Slavery was a legal trade, in fact England started it.

yeah wasnt so much as talking about this case more about that allthough it might be 200 years old that on itself isnt a reason to dismiss it, but it being legal and people from now can hardly suffer from any kind of problems, because of what happened 200 years ago means that this has no reason to ever be brought up.

 

[Tom]

I very much doubt they'll succeed. They may help clarify history for some people, but comparing the Swiss banks stealing the Jew's money to a the legal trade of slaves 200 years ago is just plain daft, especially as the Swiss acted illegally.

 

[DaGaffer]

Slavery was a legal trade, in fact England started it.

Did we bollocks. If you must pick a European, it would be the Portugese, not us, followed by the Spanish, with us, the Dutch and French 50-100 years behind. Of course the arabs and the indiginous populations had been taking slaves since time immorium, long before the first white man showed up (and there's evidence they still do).

 

[Jonny_Darko]

Surely if the past hadn't happened exactly the way it did (bringing over slaves in these Lloyds-insured ships) then the people doing the actual suing would never have been born in the first place (and certainly not born free enough to even be allowed to sue for shit like this).

 

[Gengi]

I had a very interesting conversation with an American, once, on the way home from Africa. His point of view was the slavers were ultimately the best thing that ever happened to his ancestors, as they got them out of the shithole that was, and in many cases, still is, Africa, and brought his ancestors and consequently him to America, where he has a good job, albeit it involves commuting to Africa and his kids have a future.
There you go some food for thought.

Later

 

[Wazzerphuk]

leggy your post has been reported for being too rude and offensive

ta

 

[ECA]

What gengi said surely?

Give these people the choice of living as they do now or being deported back to a tribal village in africa.

See how many of them are hypocritical money grabbing "I'm Black your racialist givf money" twats.

 

[TdC]

south america should sue portugal and spain. indonesia will sue holland. etc. etc. etc. I sure that as I'm half scots, half dutch, born in germany and grown up in indonesia I will benifit most of all. you will all bow down to me and perform acts of tdc-worship