Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - Compensation culture for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. How many of the phrases in bold in Exercise 5 can you think of real examples for? Explain what happened.

Answer

  1. BP was held liable for the accident on its oil rig in the Mexican gulf and forced to pay damages.
  2. In a case of medical negligence at a Rhode Island hospital, they operated on the wrong side of someone’s brain.
  3. A Conservative MP, Jonathan Aitken, once sued a newspaper for libel over a claim he had been involved in corruption, but he lost the case and ended up in prison.
  4. A man who was jailed for killing Jill Dando, a TV presenter in the UK, eventually had his conviction overturned on appeal.
  5. A number of cancer sufferers / smokers filed (and won) a class-action lawsuit against a number of cigarette companies.
  6. In a case of medical negligence at a Rhode Island hospital, they operated on the wrong side of someone’s brain.
  7. The ruling of the European Human Rights court set a precedent for the example in item 7.
  8. In the UK there is opposition to some security legislation and people want to see it repealed.
  9. Many cases are dismissed for this reason.