SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED: Classic GlaxoSmithKline [UK Seroxat Litigation] -Bob Fiddaman
"Glaxo have 'invited' the solicitors to discontinue the claimants cases. Moreover, if they do so by 30th April 2009 then Glaxo say they will bear their own legal costs. [If Glaxo were successful at trial in defeating the claimants then they could seek their own legal costs]Not content with this, Glaxo are now, it seems, using brute force by writing to the Legal Services Commission [LSC] and have asked them to withdraw public funding!I have heard of standard tactics used by law teams but this attempt by GlaxoSmithKline is limp-wristed and only highlights their reluctance in keeping records away from the public eye."-Bob Fiddaman, author of Seroxat(PAXIL) Sufferers
Thursday, April 09, 2009
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Another standard pressure-applying tactic is that of paying-in a settlement...
That is, the defendant (GSK, in this case), may pay in a sum of money to court, the purpose of which is to settle the plaintiff's action, without having to bother with a full-blown trial. If the plaintiff refuses the offer, wins the case and the court awards the plaintiff less than the defendant offered, the plaintiff has to pay the defendant's costs, along with the court fees, essentially as a punishment for wasting the court's time, as far as I can establish.
I'll check with Fidders, and see if GSK's tried that, yet. If it hasn't, it will. Obviously, any settlement offer would come with the usual gagging order.
Matt
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