JUSTICE GOING CHEAP

摘要

Heaven forfend that you (or I, for that matter) should have the word "pleb" hurled at us, especially within the quiet and polite environs of a building site. "Pleb" - a pejorative word signifying someone of low social class. Worse to hear it said to the pleb: "Best you learn of your f~(***)ing place"; "you don't run this f.. ..ing site"; "You haven't heard the f~(***)ing last of this". Well now there is one hell of a row going on about all this "pleb" stuff between the MP Andrew Mitchell and the Sun newspaper. Mr Mitchell is suing the Sun for libel. There is a snag. The litigation has stumbled into new rules called "The Jackson Reforms". It appears that the litigators had to tell each other by a set date how much they would spend on the libel action. The Sun said it was a mere £590k on their side. Mr Mitchell said £506k, would be spent by his side. The snag? Ah well, his lawyers missed the deadline for piping -up ... Only by a few days ... And who cares?