Sueing someone for $10bn

is something that could only happen in another country. An attempt to do that here would be thrown out of court. It may still be thrown out there.

I am of course talking about President Trump's attempt to sue the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for printing an article about a birthday letter he is alleged to have written. Whether he wrote it or not is not something I can comment on. I have not seen the evidence. All I can say is that the WSJ would have reviewed the evidence and taken legal advice before they published anything of that nature. They would also have looked at the evidence of a relationship between the writer of the letter and the recipient. 

I do not know if the Epstein files exist or not. I have not seen those either. I do not know if Epstein committed suicide or if his death was "assisted" in any way. Anything is possible. Most people would, at very least, be willing to believe he was not a "nice" person. Any powerful person would not wish their name to be associated with him. 

Thinking of all that I thought of another case I am personally aware of and the impact it had on him and his family. He was falsely accused of the sexual abuse of a child. He was dismissed from his job. He kept protesting his innocence and being told to plead guilty in the hope of a lighter sentence. He refused. The matter was about to go to court when the girl who had laid the complaint withdrew it. She admitted that it had been made "for a dare" and that she and another girl had resented being failed an assignment on which they had cheated and been found out. 

Although he is in no way at fault he can no longer get a Working With Children (WWC) certificate. He cannot work as a teacher. He cannot even work as a tutor. He has a labouring job which he is not really fit to do but only because someone knew the story from the girl's family. The girl got away with no more than a reprimand and a change of school so she could "start again". Several years later she is now at university - and planning on working with children. 

There is no way this man can sue. The girl has no assets. He cannot even get his legal costs returned to him. It is just fortunate that it did not reach the press.  Some of those most in need of being paid "damages" will never get a cent.