Answer — Exercise 6
16 - Compensation culture·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Pregunta
Work in pairs. How many of the phrases in bold in Exercise 5 can you think of real examples for? Explain what happened.
Respuesta
- BP was held liable for the accident on its oil rig in the Mexican gulf and forced to pay damages.
- In a case of medical negligence at a Rhode Island hospital, they operated on the wrong side of someone’s brain.
- 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.
- A man who was jailed for killing Jill Dando, a TV presenter in the UK, eventually had his conviction overturned on appeal.
- A number of cancer sufferers / smokers filed (and won) a class-action lawsuit against a number of cigarette companies.
- In a case of medical negligence at a Rhode Island hospital, they operated on the wrong side of someone’s brain.
- The ruling of the European Human Rights court set a precedent for the example in item 7.
- In the UK there is opposition to some security legislation and people want to see it repealed.
- Many cases are dismissed for this reason.