On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 at 19:08:24, Fred J. McCall  
wrote in uk.politics.electoral :

>Robert Henderson  wrote:
>:
>:The cost of a civil action would have been trivial for people with the
>:Blairs' income and assets. RH
>:
>You persist in missing the point.  Given your other claims, I do not
>find that particularly surprising.
>
>One files a civil suit when one can more than recover the costs.  How
>"trivial" they might be for the person suing is irrelevant.  If the
>person being sued is 'judgment proof' because there is simply nothing
>to deprive them of by suing them, all a civil suit does is cost the
>person suing money to no effect.

e.g the infamous McLibel case.
>
>What did you have that they could have sued you for?
>
His tinfoil hat? :)
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham