Vexing Vexatious Vexers

Dr dear Dr: Why are the evil republics, and some Christian Republics at that, so given up to so much compo-culture and litigation to make the cows come home?

It is not only princes and prime ministers who have to deal with litigious republics at $25 a throw of the Russian Vietnamese Roulette dice, but even here in Christian Ireland and similar to Christian France, where I sometimes go to stay at a gite with my lovely blonde sister Carmel-Anne who looks like Nathalie Dormer’s Queen Anne Boleyn, there are some people that my grandfather would not even give a lift to in his motor car, such was their reputation for taking a civil action against naive but well-meaning benefactors - what goes around comes around, as Britney would say. My grandfather used to say, driving along in his old Humber Sceptre, that “that fellow there hitching a life - I would not even grant him the drippings of a guard’s nose, such is his passion for suing people at the drop of a hat - watch out for those ones, young laddy Jim, my little Jackeen, not to be trusted those types.” It was called even then in glorious France, “la liturgie au coin”, or simply but complicatedly put, known as “compo culture”, and so widespread in some once glorious nations that it makes the nation “a nation of vexatious busybodies” to quote the erudite phraseology of the great Lord Diplock in British GB Jurisprudence. “Compo culture” meaning a schema of ruses and scams that are designed to get doddery old judges to award rogues and their shifty-eyed La Serte lawyers some miniscule compensation here and there for the accidents of say getting in and out of cars, a real scam and a real routine in those “evil republics” that Dr Byrd once complained about. But there is little procedural defence against those rogues, since in American republics for instance all that a vexatious litigious anybody needs is $25 to begin a lawsuit - outrageous but true, such is life in the impossible republics. Our own system of Application for Judicial Review is much more cautious. No wonder George W Bush, that saintly figure from the past in American presidential history, once sought to impose caps on the awards of damages in such litigious cases of $500,000 top of the range. It did not last long, as the pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson learned to its cost last month when its litigants on side-effects were awarded $800m, chiefly because the malesin receipt of JnJ medication complained that their medication was turning them slowly into women. More potty high pitched lawsuits in potty America. $25 is all it takes over there in the litigious center of the world. There the sky is the limit. Lord Diplock - come back, all is forgiven.